The Curriculum Reform in Ideology and Politics of Foreign Language Courses: A Case Study of the Course “Consecutive Interpreting in Science and Technology”

Purpose/Significance Interpreting courses have been weighing on the improvement of students’ interpreting skills rather than delivering ideological and political elements. Design/Methodology The current study discusses how to fully implement ideological and political education and find out proper relevant ideological and political elements from the course of “Consecutive Interpreting in Science and Technology”. There are three approaches in the practice of ideological and political reform of this course. Online-Offline classes enable students’ interpreting skills to be elevated online and ideological and political elements to be embedded in offline-mode consecutive interpreting and bilingual debate. The integrated consecutive interpreting training platform provides updated online e-resources with ideological and political elements. The assessment scheme takes both skills and ideological and political perspectives into account. Conclusions/Findings There have been positive effects after the implementation of the three approaches in this course. Students are equipped with interpreting skills as well as a bettering sense of recognition of the interpreting major.