Approaches to Thesis Topic Selection for Translation Majors under Industry-Education Integration

Abstract

Industry-education integration has been identified as an important element in China’s higher education reform. Unfortunately, the topic selection in translation programs often fails to integrate structural elements, such as too much academia and inadequate industry. Issues with this process tend to be homogeneity, lack of practical relevance, and lack of collaboration between schools and enterprises. Based on industry-education integration, this paper diagnoses the present condition and existing issues regarding topic selection in translation programs and further explores how to develop theoretical foundation and implementation path of reform. This research shows that industry-education integration implies the following three changes: knowledge transfer into problem solving, linguistic conversion into competence-knowledge integration, and terminal evaluation into whole-course integration. Consequently, the three-dimensional framework “industry needs–pedagogy adaptation–student development” is proposed, and reform paths at four levels are outlined: mechanisms of institutions, topic resources, process management, and competence cultivation.