MTI Curriculum Design Based On Employment Of Students: ——A Case Study Of Gsti At Bfsu

Since the MTI（shorted for Master of Translation and Interpreting）program was approved to set up in 2007,this program has faced many problems while developing rapidly.Among those problems,curriculum design is an important link in the cultivation of translation talents.Beijing Foreign Studies University is one of the first universities in China to offer a postgraduate degree of translation,and its Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation（GSTI）is the leading translation institution to train interpreters in China.Taking GSTI as an example,this thesis will investigate the students of its MTI program through the questionnaire and open interviews based on the reading of literature related to employability and curriculum setting.The questionnaire consists of two parts,collecting data related to students’employment and their evaluation of the current courses.This survey aims to figure out students’ employment destinations and problems as well as the employability of the curriculum.The results show that finance and business directions as well as education and culture directions are the most dominant paths for Class 2019 and Class 2020,followed by translation-related industries.The major employment problem is lack of suitable interpreting positions.In terms of the curriculum,the courses that are more helpful to employment are Consecutive Interpreting and Simultaneous Interpretation,especially the former.As for the courses that are less helpful to employment,they are Chinese Language and Culture and Speech and Cross-Cultural Communication.Based on the results of the questionnaire,the thesis will conduct interviews to analyze the specific dilemmas of GSTI students in choosing their jobs and collect the students’ suggestions on the curriculum reform.This aims to improve the courses that are less helpful for employment and further meet the employment needs of students.This study can enable MTI students to make career planning early,improve their employability and help universities that offer MTI programs understand students’ employment directions and dilemmas so as to adjust their curriculum setting and training goals.