Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course engages students in an exploration of professional identity and becoming part of a profession, focusing on the application of ethical standards and practices to the profession.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement or certified member in RID or EIPA 4.0 or higher. This course focuses on supervision of interpreting systems. Students examine core skills shared by supervisors and analyze strategies that promote effective communication and resolve conflict in the workplace.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement or certified member in RID or EIPA 4.0 or higher. This course introduces the major theories and concepts of leadership and their application to the field of interpreting and explores the link between leadership, ethics, and values.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This lab continues 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.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This lab continues 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.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course introduces students to interpreting in the K-12 setting and provides an overview of public education and deaf education practices in the United States.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course focuses on the items that affect a deaf child's education in the classroom including curriculum, standards, learning activities, language skills, learning styles, and accessibility.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This lab course includes a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in various K-12 settings.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course investigates languages and communication modes used in public school settings, with a focus on those used by deaf students.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This lab continues the skills development accomplished in INTR 432. Students engage in a range of skills development activities that increase interpreting competence in various K-12 settings.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. The focus of this course is on the nature and structure of interpreting within the general community, with particular attention to the work of freelance or agency-based interpreters.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This skills course focuses on community based interpreting. Students engage in a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in social service, employment, and medical settings.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Students engage in a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in mental health, vocational rehabilitation, recreational, and performing arts settings.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Students will engage in range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence as applied and delivered through distance technologies.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course will address the central issues of moral philosophy from the perspective of leadership studies. It seeks to identify and understand moral challenges that are peculiar to leaders.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. This course provides supervisors of interpreters, lead interpreters and/or mentors with a common system of miscue/error and feature analysis needed to conduct systematic skills performance assessments.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Acceptance into the Diagnostic Assessment Series or consent of instructor. Introduces diagnostic assessment of student work, self-assessment/peer review, to identify patterns of performance for accurate/reliable interpretation (ASL to English/English to ASL), discourse analysis, and skill development in semantic awareness/equivalence.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Addresses skill development through guided learning and practice activities, online discussion, self-assessment, peer review, feedback; explores resources available for skill development; applies principles of discourse analysis/content mapping.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Continued skill development/practice in interpreting (ASL to English/English to ASL); development of post-diagnostic assessment to identify competency progress; and generation of plan for continued skill development.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Acceptance into the Legal Interpreting Certificate Program (LITP) or consent of instructor. Provides legal foundation for interpreting services within the American legal system and gives overview of the civil and criminal process, roles and responsibilities.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Provides foundation in civil law, procedure and systems (overview of family/juvenile courts, role of arbitration/mediation, interpretation of contracts/depositions/interrogatories, expert witnesses) and language used in legal interpreting practice.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Provides expanded investigation of criminal law and procedure, providing students with further awareness and understanding of complexities and nuances of criminal court system and legal language/procedures used within the system.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Provides a foundation in applying Major Features of ASL and English to the tasks of interpreting legal texts from ASL to spoken English and from spoken English to Sign.
Prerequisite: Placement by advisement only. Students will work within a range of interpreting settings, such as educational, social services, personal business, health care and civic/recreational under the supervision of a certified mentor.