Interpretation in this case begins before the source message is completed and continues while the source message continues. Students practice interpreting speeches, lectures, and narratives. Opportunities to observe working interpreters are provided. 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.