The three courses are more distinct than earlier courses, each having a more distinct focus. This course, taught in ASL, focuses on the Deaf Perspective. Various topics of importance to Deaf people are explored with an extensive use of panels, guest speakers, and videotapes. Exercises are designed to promote this understanding at a level that supports application as well. This too is a Deaf studies course concentrating on the artistic expression of the Deaf experience, perspective, and values.
Students create their own works.
Students will meet as a group with the instructor two or three times during the quarter. Most of the work will be done outside of the classroom, with analysis and synthesis of these experiences taking different forms. Sometimes it will be writing journal notes, other times it will be compiling notebooks of collected information such as brochures, and some required experiences will be the topic of group discussions. Interpreting 1 - 3 teaches not only interpreting but what interpreting is and how to learn it. Interpreting theory and questions of role and ethics are discussed and developed.