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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on interpreting one-on-one and small group interaction in business and government settings. Students will explore the perspective, goals, and social dynamics that contribute to business and government organizational culture. The course includes a critical analysis of the structure and content of business and government discourse, the ways in which power asymmetries, gender, and other social factors affect participants in business and government settings, and issues common to these settings such as the use of acronyms, telephone extension sequencing, and other-related socio-political and technical considerations. Students will apply text analysis skills to the translation, consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation of texts geared to business and government encounters. Prerequisites: INT 342, 346
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3.00 Credits
This course is a sequel to INT 346, Discourse and Field Applications I, and emphasizes the continued development of ethical behavior and the ability to analyze situations in accordance with principled reasoning. These observations will be supplemented by in-class discussions related to logistical and environmental factors as well as discourse-based and ethically constrained decision-making issues common to these types of encounters. Students will learn to follow a framework for predicting what happens in these interactions, observing what happens, and then reading current literature about what they observe followed by discussion, analysis and application of what happens in these types of encounters. Prerequisites: INT 342, 346
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on interpreting on one-on-one and small group interaction in medical settings. Students will explore the U.S. healthcare system and its participants, characteristics of the healthcare setting, and biomedical culture. The course includes a critical analysis of medical discourse, such as doctor-patient communication and medical terminology with an emphasis on common medical conditions, treatments, and procedures. Students will apply text analysis skills to the translation, consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation of texts geared to medical encounters Prerequisites: INT 443, 453, 455
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3.00 Credits
This seminar enables interpretation majors to integrate, broaden and apply the skills and knowledge developed in their major courses. The course mainly will consist of an interpreting internship, field experience in an approved setting provides students with supervised experience at an introductory level. Students will be placed with deaf professionals in any of the five setting areas studied and engage in both observations and interactive interpretation of phone calls, one-on-one interactions and small group encounters. This is a field-based experience for students to expand their interpreting skills with a consumer-based perspective. The course includes assigned readings and discussion of advanced topics in interpretation. Students will develop portfolios of their interpreting skills for prospective employers. Minimum of 15 hours of interpreting internship per credit hour. Prerequisites: INT 443, 453, 455
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Advanced in-depth of special topics, current issues, or area of interest not included in other courses offered by the department. May be repeated with different content areas. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Reading, research, discussion, laboratory work or other project according to the interests and/or needs of the students. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for interpreters or future interpreters who have a good command of English and would like to further develop their English skills. Understanding the source message when it is in English is a crucial skill, often overlooked in interpreter education. The exercises deal with English only. Topics include finding the main point, outlining, abstracting, prediction skills, cloze skills, finding key words and propositions and text analysis. Also included will be exercises on figurative language, metaphors, and similes. This course is not included in the major.
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1.00 Credits
This is an introductory course designed for deaf-blind people, parents, educators, interpreters, and other interested people who would like to learn about deaf-blind individuals and the U.S. Deaf-Blind community.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for interpreter educators who would like to develop or enhance their skills in teaching interpreting. Basic approaches to learning theory will be introduced. The emphasis of this course is on development of specific skills used in teaching the cognitive tasks associated with interpreting and the evaluation of those skills.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for interpreters or future interpreters who would like to develop their American Sign Language (ASL) skills. Understanding the source message when it is in ASL is a crucial skill often overlooked in interpreter education. The exercises deal with ASL only. Topics include finding the main point, abstracting, prediction skills, finding key signs, rephrasing, and text analysis. Also included will be exercises on simple and complex ASL utterances.
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