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. It will explore the link between leadership, ethics, and values.
This course addresses central issues of moral philosophy, seeking to identify and understand moral challenges peculiar to leadership. Ethical problems taking on a particular guise in leadership contexts are explored.
This course provides supervisors of interpreters, lead interpreters and/or mentors with a common system, along with the tools and resources needed to effectively conduct skills-based diagnostic assessments.
This course introduces students to the American Judicial System including the scope and jurisdiction of federal and state courts and an overview of the civil and criminal court process.
This course provides students with a foundation in civil law, procedures and systems that is essential to understanding the legal meaning of civil law proceedings to be interpreted.
This course examines criminal law and its associated procedures, as well as the implications of the criminal procedure and legal language on the interpreting process.
This course provides the student with a firm foundation in the tasks of interpreting legal texts and guides the practicum experience.
This course provides the student with supervised internship in legal interpreting. This course will engage the student in a 55-hour, field-based, supervised experience that provides for the application of the skills, knowledge and attitudes that constitute interpreting in the American Judicial System.