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.
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.
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.
Students will complete and submit a capstone Entry-to-Practice Competencies Portfolio for summative evaluation.
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.
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.
This lecture/lab course provides an overview of public education deaf education practices in the United States and focuses on the nature and structure of interpreting in K-12 educational settings. Students engage in a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in various K-12 settings.
This course focuses on the items that affect a deaf child's education on the classroom including curriculum, standards, learning activities, language skills, learning styles, and accessibility.
This lab course included a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in various K-12 settings.
This course investigates languages and communication modes used in public school settings, with a focus on those used by deaf students.
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.
This lecture/lab course focuses on the nature and structure of interpreting in community settings. Students engage in a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in a variety of community settings such as social service, employment, vocational rehabilitation, medical, mental health, VRS/VRI and more.
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.
Students engage in a range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence in mental health, vocational rehabilitation, recreational, and performing arts settings.
Students will engage in range of skill development activities that increase interpreting competence as applied and delivered through distance technologies.
In this intermediate to advanced level lecture/lab course, students will continue building on the process and practice of interpreting between ASL and English with an emphasis on modifying their interpretation based on consumer preferences and/or needs, including Deafblind, language used by individuals from diverse backgrounds, and strategies for identifying atypical language users. Students will be presented with increasingly complex recorded and live scenarios and settings.
This course prepares students for their senior year by providing an overview of the upcoming Entry-to-Practice Profile and outlines tasks students must complete and benchmarks that must be met to successfully complete Senior Capstone and Internship coursework.
Concurrent Prerequisite
INTR 445 with a minimum grade of D-
In this seminar-style course, students will create, present and defend their Entry-to-Practice Profile toward demonstrating cumulative skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for work readiness as an entry-level interpreter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provides legal foundation for interpreting services within the American legal system and gives overview of the civil and criminal process, roles and responsibilities.
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.
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.
This course provides the student with a firm foundation in the tasks of interpreting legal texts and guides the practicum experience.
This course will engage the student in a 55-hour, field-based experience that provides for the application of the skills, knowledge and attitudes that constitute interpreting in the American Judicial System.
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.