ORGANISATION, COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM

The person responsible for the internal quality assurance of the degrees taught in the Faculty of Philology is the Dean or the person he/she delegates, and this person will preside over the Centre’s Quality Committee. The Centre’s Quality Committee will be responsible for the quality of the degrees taught in the Faculty of Philology.

       

The Quality Committee of the Inter-University Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Translation and Localisation UCM-UAM (MTRAVLOC) is responsible for the quality objectives of the Master’s Degree.

 

Comisión de Calidad del Máster en Traducción Audiovisual y Localización (Curso 2022-2023)
President	Dr Carmen Gómez Pérez (UCM)
Secretary	Dr José Ramón Trujillo (UAM)
Member	Dr Antonio Martínez Pleguezuelos (UCM)
Member	Dr Aránzazu Gil Casadomet (UAM)
Administrative and Services Personnel representative	Mr Israel Robla Morarles (UAM)
Student representative	Ms Isabel Sáez Jiménez UAM-UCM
External evaluator	Dr Lucía Morado Vázquez (Universidad de Ginebra)

 

 The functions of the MTRAVLOC Quality Commission include, among others:

• Establishing and defining the quality policy for the MTRAVLOC in accordance with the Centre’s quality policy (Faculty of Philology) and with the UCM’s quality policy.

• Proposing the quality objectives of the Master’s Degree in TRAVLOC, or their modification if necessary.

• Collecting information and evidence on the development and application of the training programme of the degree (objectives, development of teaching and learning and others).

• Managing the IT system of the degree programme.

• Monitoring and evaluating the quality objectives of the degree programme.

• Making proposals for the improvement and revision of the degree programme.

 These functions are implemented in the following actions, among others:

• Drawing up an annual Monitoring Report on its actions and proposing an improvement plan for the degree to the Quality Committee of the Master’s Degree in TRAVLOC, which must be studied and approved by the Centre’s Quality Committee and, finally, by the Centre’s Management Board.

• Adopting decisions and, where appropriate, resolutions in relation to any complaints and suggestions submitted.

• Adopting the proposal for modification of the Quality Committee’s Operating Regulations.

Improvements implemented

One of the objectives of the MTRAVLOC Quality Committee is to propose specific teaching and management improvements for this Master’s degree. In collaboration with the Master's Coordination Committee, some of the improvements implemented from the 2022-2023 academic year are as follows:

• Implementation of changes to the MTRAVLOC website.

• Improvement of the document covering the procedure and guidelines for the preparation and presentation of the Final Master’s Thesis.

• Enhancement of the visibility of the Final Master’s Theses.

• Creation of a MTRAVLOC Coordination and Teaching Staff Area on the Complutense University of Madrid’s Virtual Campus, thereby diversifying the channels of communication and dissemination of information between the Coordination and the lecturers who teach on the master's degree.

• Diversification and intensification of the dissemination of information about the MTRAVLOC in the different pre-registration periods: preparation and dissemination of posters and information leaflets, both printed and in digital format; organisation of informative meetings prior to enrolment periods, aimed primarily at students from the Faculty of Philology, etc.

•  Creation of a MTRAVLOC conference room on the Autonomous University of Madrid’s Virtual Campus, which will allow other students (master’s graduates, doctoral students, undergraduate students, interested teaching staff) to stream certain seminars and conferences organised by the degree programme. At the same time, a YouTube channel will be developed, which will support teaching.

• Periodic informative talks on lines of research by lecturers who will be teaching in the second semester to provide students with a wide range of possibilities for their own research and Final Master’s Thesis. Seminars on the focus of the FMT have been held in all editions of the master’s degree.

• Organisation of a “Welcome Day” with the participation of former MTRAVLOC students

• An MTRAVLOC LinkedIn page and alumni group have been set up. Students will be able to add the master’s degree as an entity in its own right in the training section. We will post job offers and contents of interest in Audiovisual Translation and Localisation in the group. In addition, we hope that the group will serve as a forum for sharing experiences and information with students from different graduating cohorts.

   

           The link to the master’s LinkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/company/master-travloc/

           The link to the alumni group is https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9105033/

• Establishment of regular meetings between the coordinators of the two campuses and the students to check that the syllabus is going well and to exchange opinions with the students. Four meetings will be held, one at the beginning and end of each semester, in addition to the individual tutorials that the coordinators hold with any students who request them. 

• Establishment of a communication channel on social media to disseminate relevant external events related to the subjects of the master’s degree that may be of interest to students.
• Bringing forward the management of internships to offer enough places for students; in this way, they will be able to complete the required hours of this subject within the dates established for the ordinary call.

• Maintenance of our own YouTube channel to serve as a repository for the lectures, seminars and workshops given in the 2021/2022 academic year for consultation and review of subjects by students of the master’s degree.

• Updating of the MTRAVLOC brochure (academic year 2023-2024).