2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

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EDI 101 Field of Interpreting

Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Introduces concept of interpreting as a profession and exploring what student needs to know and do to be a professional interpreter.

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EDI 111 Child and Language Development

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on theories of child development and acquisition of first language, understanding of children's/youths' development and integral role language plays in that development.

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EDI 112 Language and Learning in Deaf Children

Prerequisite: EDI 111.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required.  Delves into language acquisition and cognition, focusing on children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and on acquisition of ASL and types of discourse common in classroom, BICS, CALP.

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EDI 113 Deaf Education

Prerequisite: EDI 101.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required.  Overview of public education/deaf education practices, legal foundation for inclusion in public schools, and Individualized Education Plan.

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EDI 114 Educational Interpreting

Prerequisites: EDI 101, EDI 111, EDI 112, & EDI 113.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Covers historical background and current efforts in development of professional guidelines for Educational Interpreting, focusing on standards guiding role, responsibilities, and practices of the profession.

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EDI 121 Languages and Sign Systems

Prerequisites:   EDI 101, EDI 113.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Investigate languages/communication modes used particularly by deaf students in public schools, acquire ASL transcription skills, and discuss implications language choices have for interpreters.

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EDI 122 Discourse Analysis: Language Use in Education

Prerequisite: EDI 121.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on discourse/language, its analysis, and meaning in classroom. Discusses how interpretation requires understanding of context and intent, not simply individual words/signs, and its effect on students access to information.

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EDI 124 Discourse Analysis: Interpreting Discourse

Prerequisite: Acceptance into Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on foundational skills essential to effective interpreting including text analysis, abstracting, paraphrasing, linguistic/meaning analysis, feedback/self-assessment skills, and glossing/transcription.

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EDI 131 Skills Development Lab I: Foundational Skills

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on skill development for educational interpreters including language (signed, spoken) and interpreting/transliterating skills. Students develop self-assessment skills and practice professional feedback strategies.

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EDI 132 Skills Development Lab II: Language Mentorship

Prerequisites: EDI 124, EDI 131.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required.  Further skill development, focused on visual language, continued application of self-analysis/transcription skills to enhance interpret effectiveness, and assignment of mentor (to foster fluency in signing). Formats: WebCT, videotape exchange, feedback.

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EDI 133 Skills Development Lab III: Language Mentorship

Prerequisites: EDI 124, EDI 131, EDI 132.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Further/final skill development lab, focused on visual language, continued application of self-analysis/transcription skills enhancing interpret effectiveness, and assignment of mentor (to foster fluency in signing). Formats: WebCT, videotape exchange, feedback.

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EDI 211 Curriculum Methods and Materials K-12

Prerequisites: EDI 113, EDI 114.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Introduces framework of public school educational process, including standards that define content and learning theories/styles influencing instructional methods and trends in classrooms.

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EDI 212 Tutoring Techniques

Prerequisites: EDI 211.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Provides overview of tutoring support for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, including planning, preparation, and delivery phases of tutoring sessions.

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EDI 223 Communication Assessment: Techniques for Educational Interpreters

Prerequisites: EDI 111, EDI 112, EDI 113, EDI 114, EDI 121 and EDI 122.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on linguistics and discourse analysis as well as techniques for assessing language of students, teachers, and communication events in educational settings.

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EDI 231 Skills Development: K-12 Content Areas

Prerequisites: EDI 131, EDI 132 and EDI 133.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on interpretation of K-12 content materials, using actual practice time, discussions of classroom goals/language/mode choice, and development of prepared consecutive and simultaneous materials.

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EDI 232 Skills Development: K-12 Non-content Areas

Prerequisites: EDI 131, EDI 132 and EDI 133.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on interpreting activities outside academic areas through actual practice time using appropriate content material, discussions of classroom goals/language/mode choice, and development of prepared consecutive and simultaneous materials.

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EDI 233 Skills Development Lab IV: Interpreting

Prerequisites: EDI 131, EDI 132, EDI 231, EDI 232 and EDI 280.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on enhancement of student's simultaneous interpretation by engaging in frequent practice with review by peers/skills specialists (continuation of EDI 280).

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EDI 234 Professional Educational Interpreter

Prerequisites: All previous EDI courses.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Explores ethical standards and practices related to the profession as well as specific application of ethical standards and practice in the educational context.

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EDI 238 Portfolio

Prerequisites: All previous EDI courses.  Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required.  Capstone of Educational Interpreting Program in which student demonstrates ability to meet core competencies by reflecting upon and integrating what student has learned in program. Also projects student's professional development.

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EDI 280 Internship: Educational Interpreting

Prerequisites: EDI 131, EDI 132, EDI 231, EDI 232. Acceptance into the Educational Interpreting Certificate Program (EICP) or permission of instructor required. Focuses on aspects of interpretation of ASL to English/English to ASL through assignment of mentor to foster fluency and application of self-analysis/ transcription skills for self-monitoring effectiveness as educational interpreter.

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EDI 313 Professional Renewal

Update skills and knowledge of professionals in the discipline. Goals and objectives will be specifically directed at individual professional enhancement rather than the acquisition of general discipline knowledge or methodologies. S/U or letter graded. Repeatable, under different subtitles.

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