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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
In preparation for this course, the student selects a topic in linguistics that is substantially different from that of any regular course and finds an instructor to serve as faculty mentor. Please see www.usm.maine.edu/lin for detailed guidelines. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Cr var.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in translation from written English to dynamic ASL. Students will examine a variety of textual materials, including business letters, government and business forms, and selected other short texts, with the goal of comprehending, abstracting, and translating these materials. Work will focus on the intent and force of the texts, as well as linguistic and cultural assumptions underlying them. Prerequisite: LIN 331. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Students contract with a service provider, interpreting agency, or school to work in a supervised situation where they experience 90 hours of hands-on interpreting (a portion can be observation of a certified interpreter). Placement(s) must be preapproved by the coordinator of the Interpreter Training Program. Students attend a biweekly meeting with interpreters to address current issues and difficult situations encountered. Prerequisites: LIN 333 and 334. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Students contract to work in a pre-approved, supervised situation where they perform 90 hours of hands-on interpreting. Weekly journal reports are submitted to the Interpreter Training Program coordinator, who regularly checks on progress. Students identify a research-based study of interpreting in conjunction with their practicum and produce a paper suitable for publication in a peer- reviewed journal. Prerequisite: LIN 411. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Interpreting students apprentice with a programapproved mentor and submit a weekly journal entry, attend a series of skills improvement workshops and/or engage in laboratory-based research to complete 90 contact hours of interpreting-related skills improvement activities. Students attend a biweekly meeting with interpreters to address current issues and difficult situations encountered. Special arrangements will be made for mentoring partnerships at remote sites. Prerequisites: LIN 333 and 334. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed examination of the process of acquiring language in young children that concentrates on sentence structure. The course considers how children extract from the speech they hear the information that is critical to their developing ability to form sentences. It reviews questions about the nature of grammar and how grammars might be structured to facilitate language acquisition, and how various kinds of early experience do and do not contribute to acquisition. Prerequisites: LIN 185J, LIN 313. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the activities of the brain and mind that listeners and readers use to understand sentences, as well as to the mental representations that these processes construct. The course considers how the words of speech and writing are integrated into coherent phrases and sentences, and how listeners use the structure of sentences to help determine their interpretation. The course considers how various common sentence forms ease or disrupt the processes of comprehension. Prerequisites: LIN 185J, LIN 313. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar centers around a single topic, for example, legal interpreting, interpreting for special populations (deaf-blind, oral, cued-speech, minimal language skills assessment and interpreting), ethical issues, medical and mental health interpreting, interpreter assessment, and interpreting the 12 steps. The course will be offered in response to student interest in a given topic and may be repeated as topics vary. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Cr var.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on one area of theoretical linguistics, e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics. It will offer a more in-depth and advanced discussion than is presented in the 300- level courses on these topics. The course will be offered in response to student interest in a given topic. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Prerequisite: permission. Cr 1-3.
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3.00 Credits
The topic for this thesis must be selected in consultation with the student's advisor and approved by the linguistics faculty. Students will meet regularly with their advisor as they work on the project. The finished thesis must be approved by the linguistics faculty, and should ideally be completed by the end of the fall semester of the student's senior year. Prerequisites: LIN 310 or 311, LIN 312-314, and LIN 315 or 390, as well as approval of project proposal. Cr 3.
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