Course focuses on simultaneously interpreting dialogues from American Sign Language to English and English to American Sign Language. Interpretation begins before the source message is completed and continues while the source message continues. Students practice interpreting telephone calls, meetings, and interviews. Opportunities to observe working interpreters are provided. Course examines history of translation, models of interpreting, and equivalence across languages.
Study includes theories of spoken language interpreting and sign language interpreting.
Theories of basic, practical ethics and behaviors are explored and applied to the interpreting profession. Transliterating and Educational Interpreting 3 cr. Course focuses on transfer of information from spoken English to a signing system and from a signing system to spoken English. Students practice transliterating skills in various planned and unplanned situations. Issues specific to educational interpreting settings are discussed, and opportunities to observe educational interpreters are provided.