INT 3406 - Sign to Voice (ASL/English) Interpreting

Communications Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Summer 2019 (560)

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 and
Prerequisite INT 3270 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This course focuses on the development of primary sign to voice interpreting skills for deaf people in the K-12 classroom environment. The course focuses on voicing from a signed Contact Language to grade appropriate spoken English.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of conveying a message in the K-12 classroom environment from American Sign Language (ASL) to an appropriate English equivalent by:
    1. identifying appropriately voiced vocabulary in English from selected media and live presentations with 70 percent accuracy.
    2. describing appropriate voicing dynamics through written testing with 70 percent accuracy.
  2. The student will develop basic voicing skills in the K-12 classroom environment interpreting from ASL to English by:
    1. voicing selected media produced and live presentations into spoken English with 70 percent accuracy.
    2. transcribing selected media produced presentations into written English with 70 percent accuracy.
  3. The student will develop voicing skills in transliterating Signed English to English in the K-12 classroom environment by:
    1. voicing selected media produced and live presentations into spoken English with 70 percent mastery.
    2. transcribing selected media produced presentations into written English with 70 percent accuracy.
  4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of sign modalities used by deaf individuals in the K-12 classroom environment by:
    1. describing varying modalities through written testing with 70 percent accuracy.
    2. identifying varying modalities within selected media produced and live presentations with 70 percent accuracy.

Criteria Performance Standard

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

History of Changes

C&I Approval: 02/14/2019, BOT Approval: 03/19/2019, Effective Term: Summer 2019 (560)

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