INT 3270 - Consecutive Interpreting Skills

Communications Department

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 62
Effective Term Spring 2019 (555)

Requisites

Prerequisite INT 3004 with a minimum grade of C and
Prerequisite INT 3205C with a minimum grade of C and
Prerequisite INT 3404 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This course is a continuation of English-to-American Sign language interpreting skills designed to focus on the advancement of consecutive interpretation techniques in a variety of role-playing situations and settings.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will analyze key principles of the cognitive process in consecutive interpreting by:
    1. Comparing the cognitive processes involved in various contexts within the interpreting process.
    2. Discussing the importance of memory to the interpreting process, and identifying strategies for improving memory skills.
    3. Applying memory techniques and discourse analysis to the consecutive interpretation of a text in both ASL and English.
  2. The student will demonstrate using consecutive interpreting in various situations by:
    1. Identifying different models and types of interpreting and applying their skills in interpreting consecutively from English into ASL.
    2. Analyzing ASL and English equivalent in consecutive interpretation with in various contexts and situations.
    3. Producing a culturally appropriate interpretation in different scenarios.
    4. Evaluating the ability to effectively team interpret during consecutive interpretation, including Deaf-Hearing team interpreting.
  3. The student will analyze the demands-control schema of working interpreters in a variety of community and educational settings.
    1. Recognizing and explaining the dynamic nature of demands.
    2. Identifying interpreting decisions that are affected by the priority and significance of demands.
    3. Comparing the various challenges and risks involved in the consecutive interpreting process and in Deaf-Hearing team interpreting.

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: 07/26/2018, BOT Approval: 09/18/2018, Effective Term: Spring 2019 (555)

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