SLIE-242 Advanced Skill Development Interpreting

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into College Level Reading, completion of ELAP-120 with a 2.0 or higher, or successful completion of ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092; SLIE-231 with a minimum grade 3.0 and SLIE-241 with a minimum grade 3.0.
Continues to develop interpreting transliterating and voicing skills. Focus will be placed on interactive interpreting settings including but not limited to: parent teacher conferences meetings with loan officers doctor and mental health counseling sessions and sales pitches. Intensified instruction is provided on increasing English and ASL technical vocabulary for situations listed above and adapting to a variety of situations.

Course Outcomes
1. Students will continue to develop overall interpreting skills and demonstrate their progress through live evaluation of hands-on performance 2. Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate and critique their own work based on appropriate professional goals through written critiques of their own, peer, and professional interpreting/transliterating samples. Students will also study basic interpreting mistakes and solutions in order to develop self, peer, and professional evaluation/critiquing skills