This upper-level lecture/lab course engages students in advanced interpreting activities necessary for intermediate interpretation, including complex cognitive processing, and expanded short-term memory skills. Students will also learn teamwork approaches with Deaf interpreters, DeafBlind interpreting techniques, and ethical decision-making strategies using various experiential and simulated learning exercises.
Students explore the structure of community and how involvement in community contributes to self-awareness, identity, human relations and civic responsibility.
This course focuses on discourse and interpreting in a cultural context. Students examine definitions of culture and how identity and culture orientation contribute to conflict/ contact in cross-cultural situations.
In this course, students continue developing their professional portfolio with emphasis on evidence in Domain 5 (Professionalism) and a review of evidence in all Domains.
This lecture/lab course engages students in the development of simultaneous interpreting skills, focusing on further development of the dual tasking skills associated with interpreting.
This lab focuses on the mental processing skills of consecutive interpretation including visualization, listening and comprehending, shadowing, paraphrasing, abstracting, dual task training and close skills.
This lab focuses on the application of interpreting skills to a variety of texts involving variables that must be managed by the student as part of the interpreting process.
This lab focuses on 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.
Coursework examines the settings in which interpreting occurs and engages students in the systematic analysis of factors impacting different settings through the lens of the Demand-Control Schema. Students will shadow working interpreters to observe the roles and responsibilities of professional interpreters in a variety of settings.
Students examine interpreting settings and shadow working interpreters for the purpose of further and deeper analysis of factors impacting different settings through the lens of the Demand-Control Schema.
In this intermediate lecture/lab course, students will deepen their understanding of consecutive interpreting between ASL and English with increasing complexity and begin acquiring foundational skills in simultaneous interpreting. The course covers interpreting standards and practices across a range of settings, such as community, education, and healthcare, with a strong emphasis on identifying and applying linguistically and culturally accurate meaning transfer techniques. Students will analyze texts to understand factors influencing interpretation decisions and explore theoretical frameworks, including Role Space and Demand-Control Schema. Team interpreting will be introduced, highlighting the collaborative roles within Deaf and non-Deaf interpreter teams.
In this intermediate lecture/lab course, students will continue building on the process and practice of interpreting with a focus on interpreting from ASL to English. Students will prepare for and interpret a variety of texts which will be analyzed to identify factors influencing best choices to achieve linguistically and culturally accurate meaning transfer. Students will also be introduced to interpreting that is delivered via distance technologies.