This course provides an overview of the interpreting profession while preparing students to successfully utilize the technology used in the ASL English interpreting program. Students will also identify effective time management skills and apply various styles of learning.
This upper-level ASL course spotlights Deaf historical events to develop advanced narrative techniques. Students will distinguish between Deaf and hearing cultural values and ways of being. The simultaneous and visual nature of signed languages will be compared with the linear and sequential nature of spoken languages. Students will comprehend story-telling techniques, produce constructed action, constructed dialogue, personification, temporal aspect, and several other advanced grammatical features.
This advanced ASL course explores specialized discourse, registers, and the use of space. Emphasis is given to cultural subjects, including Deaf and signed language Gain, Universal Design, and Deaf organizations. Students will comprehend and produce adjectives and adverbs for describing manner, motion, action, and advanced classifier predicates. Topics covered include human body systems, medical procedures, sports, activities, along with animal behaviors and their habitats.
This upper-level ASL course is designed for ASL English interpretation majors and focuses on the continued development of grammatical, syntactic, and semantic competence in ASL, with particular attention to genre-based narrative discourse and register analysis. Students will incorporate research on various topics, such as the interpreting profession, ASL linguistics, or regional/cultural dialects, to enhance comprehension and production of ASL.
Investigates the structural properties of ASL including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Focus is given to how visual languages differ and are similar to spoken languages.
This course examines the work of interpreters from a variety of theories relating to role, function and process and provides an understanding of how these theories impact day-to-day interpreting work.
In this course, students study discourse by analyzing the context and intentions of the people within various communication events.
In this course, students are presented with a structured method for synthesizing evidence of learning and accomplishments into a format collection or portfolio.