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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prereq. INTERN 383; departmental consent -
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3.00 Credits
- See CLD 491.
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0.00 Credits
- This assessment is required of all students who wish to pursue a support area in Spanish/English Health- Care Interpretation. The student is assessed for her reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in both Spanish and English. The student who is not successful in the assessment but demonstrates that with further work she has the potential for success is required to take SLC 403 and successfully reassess before entering the program.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - This course introduces the student to all basic technical aspects of interpreting, including the acquisition or expansion of a specialized vocabulary and technical terminology, the prevalent modes of interpreting in the health-care field, effective listening skills, and other parameters that affect communication in interpreter-mediated events. The student develops the necessary abilities upon which to build an understanding of the intricacies and complexity of health-care interpretation.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 3; one 210- level humanities/fine arts course - In this course, the student is uniquely positioned to enhance her initial understanding of health-care interpretation. The course presents the theoretical frameworks that define culture, cultural competence, and cultural proficiency. It examines the CLAS standards (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards in Health Care) from the federal Office of Minority Health, discusses diversity and immigration in the United States, and presents issues in transcultural communication. The final portion of the course focuses specifically on Latino culture and health care as they relate to these issues. Although this course is designed primarily for students in the Spanish/English healthcare interpretation support area, it is also open to students interested in understanding the multicultural aspects of health care.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. SPI 210 - This course builds on Spanish health-care vocabulary and cultural awareness developed in SPI 210 and SPI 310, focusing on aspects of interpretive theory. The student is involved in practice drills and simulations designed to approximate as closely as possible challenges faced by health-care interpreters. These simulations incorporate sight, consecutive, and simultaneous interpretation drills from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English, exposing the student to a variety of interpreting settings (e.g., hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, mental health facilities). The student uses her developing expertise in Spanish health-care terminology and her awareness of cultural issues in health care to analyze and respond to the interpretive issues raised in these settings.
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4.00 Credits
- This course is designed to prepare the student for the significant ethical challenges she will meet in her practicum experiences and in her profession. In this course, the student examines the kinds of professional ethical issues most commonly encountered in the field of interpreting, and includes in its outcomes objectives of impartiality, respect, confidentiality, role boundaries, professionalism, and advocacy.
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2.00 Credits
- The student is in the field as an observer of health-care interpreters in various settings. She observes interpretive practice, analyzes her observations, and reflects on her observations as she responds to formal written questions and essay assignments and participates in a more informal discussion session once per week.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
- The student assists in interpretation in non-health-care situations with a full-time interpreter overseeing the communication. She also participates in discussion and reflection sessions in which she analyzes her observations and responds to formal written questions and essay assignments about her field experience.
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4.00 Credits
- The student is introduced to the perspectives, methods, and content of the social sciences. She learns to analyze social processes and structures, and examines various social groups from historical, sociological, anthropological, demographic, economic, and political perspectives. She also works at identifying her own values and learns how they originate in and shape the environment in which she lives.
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