2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog

INTR 311 Community and Identity: A Service Learning Experience

Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only.  Students explore the structure of community and how involvement in community contributes to self awareness, identity, human relations and civic responsibility.

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INTR 312 Intercultural Communication

Prerequisite:  Placement by advisement only.  This course focuses on discourse and interpreting in a cultural context. Students examine definitions of culture and how identity and culture orientation contribute to conflict/contact in cross-cultural situations.

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INTR 315 Portfolio Assessment III

Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only.  In this course, students continue developing their professional portfolio with emphasis on evidence in Domain 5 (Professionalism) and a review of evidence in all Domains.

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INTR 320 Introduction to Simultaneous Interpreting

Prerequisite:  Placement by advisement only.  This lecture/lab course engages students in the development of simultaneous interpreting skills, focusing on further development of the dual tasking skills associated with interpreting.

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INTR 321 Consecutive Interpreting Skills Lab I

Prerequisite:  Placement by advisement only.  This lab focuses on the mental processing skills of consecutive interpretation including visualization, listening and comprehending, shadowing, paraphrasing, abstracting, dual task training and cloze skills.

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INTR 322 Consecutive Interpreting Skills Lab II

Prerequisite:  Placement by advisement only.  This lab focuses on the application of interpreting skills to a variety of texts involving variables that must be managed by the student as part of the interpreting skills.

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INTR 323 Simultaneous Interpreting Skills Lab I

Prerequisite:  Placement by advisement only.  This lab focuses on the application of interpreting skills with increasing difficulty based on the complexity of factors to be managed by the student as part of the interpreting process.

2

INTR 330 Observation Supervision I

Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only.  Coursework examines the settings in which interpreting occurs and engages students in the systematic analysis of factors impacting different settings through the lens of the Demand-Control Schema.

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INTR 331 Observation Supervision II

Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only.  Students examine interpreting settings and shadow working interpreters for the purpose of further and deeper analysis of factors impacting different settings through the lens of the Demand-Control Schema.

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