Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

INTR 100 Strategies for ASL English Interpretation Success

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.

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Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

Major/Minor Restriction

Include American Sign Language English Interpretation Major(s)

INTR 101 ASL V

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.

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Prerequisites

ASL 202 with a minimum grade of B

Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

Major/Minor Restriction

Include American Sign Lang-Eng Interpr (and) American Sign Lang Eng Interpr Major(s)

Course Fee

Course Fee Required

INTR 102 ASL VI

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.

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Prerequisites

INTR 101 with a minimum grade of B

Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

Major/Minor Restriction

Include American Sign Lang-Eng Interpr (and) American Sign Lang Eng Interpr Major(s)

Course Fee

Course Fee Required

INTR 103 ASL for Interpreters I

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.

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Prerequisites

INTR 102 with a minimum grade of B

Offered

Generally offered Summer Annually

Major/Minor Restriction

Include American Sign Lang-Eng Interpr (and) American Sign Lang Eng Interpr Major(s)

INTR 111 ASL Linguistics

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.

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Prerequisites

ASL 202 with a minimum grade of B

Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

INTR 112 Theory and Practice of Interpreting

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.

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Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

Course Fee

Course Fee Required

INTR 113 Discourse Analysis

In this course, students study discourse by analyzing the context and intentions of the people within various communication events.

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Prerequisites

INTR 102 with a minimum grade of B

Offered

Generally offered Summer Annually

INTR 115 Portfolio Assessment 1

In this course, students are presented with a structured method for synthesizing evidence of learning and accomplishments into a format collection or portfolio.
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