This paper， based on the latest translation theories (Pei-Ji Chang (1997)，ChunZhong Lin (1997)，Hui-Lin He (1997)，among others) will take the course of SpanishChinese translation as an example to study the curriculum designed specially for this course. This course is designed to help the students to improve their reading comprehension of Spanish and to stimulate their learning interest. Itcourse has a different teaching objective compared with the course of Spanish reading and Chinese-Spanish
translation. Besides translation， the students can learn more culture relevant to Spanish speaking countries if the teaching materials are well selected The course materials are divided into 3 parts: handouts， spontaneous exercises and homework. The handout ditTers from the grammar book in consisting of the nine parts of speech， translation techniques， idiomatic expression. reference book， translation comparison， introduction to translation theory ,etc. With respect to the spontaneous exercise and homework‘we include di fferent content types. In corresponding to the variety of the teaching materials， we try to make the classroom active in order to stimulate the students' interest and the interaction between students and the teacher by requiring students to work in discussion group and correction pairs and then give feedback. The method adopted by this study includes: I. Analyzing the difficulty inclination of twenty students selected randomly from the whole group (113) by classifying their error types into syntactic structure， word/phrase/sentence meaning and cultural background. 2. Testing the relation between the students' characteristics and their opinions about the course design by collecting data from a survey including questions regarding course satisfaction. The result will improve our future course design.