English term
career
I have a doubt regarding the word "career": if I talk about studies at university level, should we also use this word or would it be more correct to say something like "degree studies"? I relate the word "career" with professional development or "trajectory". Am I correct? Maybe a(n English) native can help.
Thanks a lot in advance!!
Idith
Sep 14, 2018 16:04: Thomas Pfann changed "Language pair" from "Spanish to English" to "English"
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Going freelance after 12yrs in industry
Native in: English (Variants: South African, UK, US, British) 
, Portuguese (Variants: European/Portugal, Mozambican, South African, Angolan)
Works in: Portuguese to English, English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
undergraduate/graduate studies
Unless the text you are working refers to someone following a career within the university in the field of research or teaching (in which case you would talk about an academic career), those who are still students are pursuing university studies or academic studies. You can be more or less specific to indicate whether they are engaged in undergraduate or graduate/postgraduate studies.
Some of the activities you may be expected to contribute to during an academic career are illustrated below.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career
https://www.ed.ac.uk/careers/postgrad/phd/options/academic-career/what-is-it
| Thanks to all of you! Finch is right, I should have probably added more context. I thought it was clear when i mentioned "university studies". The title of the document is: Propuesta para el mejoramiento de las CARRERAS de Bioquímica y Farmacia en América Latina. The document addresses "carrera" from an institutional level, speaks on how to improve the curricula, etc. Its difficult to explain for me because in Spanish we use the same word for diff contexts: "carrera profesional" y "seguí la carrera de medicina hasta cuarto año", for example. |
| Thank you Sarah! You helped me a lot and this is exactly what I needed! |
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Omar Al-Awady
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Manuel Moreno
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airmailrpl
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B D Finch
: Unfortunately, the Asker has failed to give adequate context. Also, "career" can be lower level: https://www.cesifo-group.de/DocDL/Forum302-dice.pdf "… a third of the pupils tested had a school career that was marked by failure".
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Yvonne Gallagher
: simply "course" fits context better...
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United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
academic career
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Note added at 19 mins (2018-09-14 16:16:20 GMT)
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Or "academic career path", as in:
www.apprise.ox.ac.uk › Cademic_career_paths
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Tony M
: This is rather misleading, as it strongly implies someone's career as an academic
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And that might actually what is being referred to, since the asker didn't give a comprehensive context. Even so, I consider the voluminous amount of higher education studies I have carried out to be my "academic career".
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Spain
The Right Word Used in the Right Context
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
Discussion
"1. run
2. race
3. (also: carrera universitaria) (university) course
4. (also: carrera profesional) career
There are plenty of useful example sentences here, from which you can see that "carrera" will only be translated as "career" when it refers to the course of someone's professional/working life, not when it refers to their studies.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/espanol-ing...