INT 4260 - Simultaneous Interpreting Skills

Communications Department

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 62
Effective Term Fall 2019 (565)

Requisites

Prerequisite INT 3270 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This is an advanced course in both English-to-American Sign language and American Sign Language-to-English interpreting skills. Students will focus on the advancement of their simultaneous interpretation techniques, with speed and accuracy in their expressive interpreting skills and in a complex variety of situations and settings.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will analyze key principles of the cognitive process in simultaneous interpretation by:
    1. comparing the cognitive process of various contexts with the interpreting process.
    2. discussing the importance of the interpreting process, and identifying strategies for improving speed and accuracy.
    3. applying discourse analysis techniques to the simultaneous interpretation in both American Sign Language and English.
    4. applying their skills in interpreting simultaneously both English into American Sign Language and American Sign language into English.
  2. The student will demonstrate using simultaneous interpreting in a variety of community and educational settings by:
    1. contrasting different models and types of interpreting.
    2. producing a culturally appropriate interpretation in educational settings.
    3. evaluating the ability to effectively team interpret during simultaneous interpretation, including team of deaf and hearing interpreters in various community settings.
  3. The student will evaluate simultaneous interpretation in various settings by:
    1. analyzing equivalent in simultaneous interpretation with various contexts and situations through peer evaluation and self-analysis.
    2. identifying challenges of linguistic decisions that are affected during simultaneous interpreting in a variety of settings.
    3. comparing the various challenges and risks involved in the simultaneous interpreting process.
    4. critiquing deaf and hearing interpreters in a variety of interpreting situations.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I Approval: 02/14/2019, BOT Approval: 03/19/2019, Effective Term: Fall 2019 (565)

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