Özet:

Producing knowledge and value is one of the prominent goals of new generation universities. At this point, along with specific academic knowledge, research, inquiry, critical and relational thinking emerge as necessary skills to acquire the targeted qualifications. Therefore, courses providing these skills are essential for building the required infrastructure to produce knowledge and value and for developing the ability to use academic knowledge effectively in practice. In terms of translation education, the above-mentioned skills also support ’translation competence’, which is essentially a multi-layered set of skills. ’Complementary courses’ in Translation and Interpreting programs based on research, reading, questioning and critical thinking support both learning and translation competencies. This study aims to reveal the contribution of Current Developments and Language and Cultural Competence courses, which are complementary in Translation and Interpreting programs, to above-mentioned skills. Accordingly, the Current Developments and English Language and Cultural Competence courses in the curriculum of Translation and Interpreting Department in Manisa Celal Bayar University are examined within the scope of the study. First, the concepts of ‘information literacy’ and ‘information fluency’, which constitute the conceptual and theoretical framework of the study are discussed in the context of learning competence and translation competence. Then, the definitions and functions of the specified courses in the curriculum are explained and evaluated in terms of information fluency as a learning competence and translation competence.

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