INT 3403 - Issues in Educational Interpreting

Communications Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2020 (570)

Requisites

Admission to Educational Studies and Community Leadership (Bachelor of Science) (EDST-BS)

Course Description

This course explores the role of the interpreter in the K-12 educational setting. Issues related to institutional policies, potential role conflicts, interpreter/faculty collaboration, and support service provision in the K-12 educational setting will be emphasized.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will apply knowledge of K-12 institutional policies within various educational levels related to interpreting and deaf education by:
    1. describing K-12 institutional policies on a written test.
  2. The student will describe the issues related to interpreter roles in the K-12 educational setting by:
    1. listing the standards of the Educational Interpreter's Code of Ethics in written testing.
    2. applying the standards of the Code of Ethics in role-play situations.
  3. The student will apply effective interpreter/faculty collaboration and support service provision in the K-12 educational setting by:
    1. describing three strategies for faculty awareness training about deafness and interpreting in written testing .
    2. analyzing three techniques of support service provisions in written testing.

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: 09/05/2019, BOT Approval: 09/24/2019, Effective Term: Spring 2020 (570)

Related Programs

  1. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (665) (Draft)
  2. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (660) (Active)
  3. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (610) (Draft)