This course expands students knowledge of the impact of deafness on the development of language and cognition and the socialization of deaf individuals in a hearing world. This course presents factors that contribute to defining deaf persons as members of a cultural minority. The course explores the impact of language on the culture as well as the role of norms, values, traditions, and minority groups within deaf culture. Identity and membership in deaf culture are also included. In this course, students expand their repertoire of specialized and technical sign terminology and apply them in appropriate contexts.
Students also discuss tutoring strategies.
This course provides students with an opportunity to develop basic skills in interpreting and transliterating into spoken English from ASL and various contact varieties. This course provides students with a knowledge of transliterating techniques and develops skills in transliterating spoken English into signed English. The course also introduces the concept of transliterating and the differences between transliterating and interpreting. This seminar provides students with an open forum to discuss situations arising from interpreter assignments during internship, and with an opportunity to prepare for entering the interpreting field. This course provides field experience in interpreting, in a supervised educational, community, service agency, or other setting.