Designing a course in Translation Studies to respond to students' questions

Abstract

We invited students beginning BA and MA courses in Translation Studies in Monterey and Vienna to formulate questions that they would like to see answered. The categorisation and analysis of 662 of their questions indicates that (1) by far the most questions concern financial and business aspects of the translation professions, (2) there is a widespread pessimistic discourse about the social status and future of these professions, (3) new technologies are predominantly seen as rivals of human translators rather than a set of aids, although this fear is less pronounced in the US context than in the European institution, (4) there is a persistent concern with the ways in which translation theor..