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Discipline: Humanities & Social Sciences: Sign Language Interpreting Unit

Course Name	Course Number	Objectives
Advanced Interpreting	SIGN 232	Interpreting students will successfully apply Demand Control Schema (DC-S) Theory to the field of Sign Language Interpreting. Given a English narrative successfully give a functional equivalent message in ASL in a simultaneous mode.
American Deaf Culture	SIGN 202	Students completing an assignment in Humanities Area C will be able to identify the influence of culture on human expression. Students will be able to correctly contrast specific aspects of American Deaf culture with general American hearing culture.
American Sign Language 1	SIGN 101	Students will be able to identify immediate and extended family signs.
American Sign Language 1 - Honors	SIGN 101H	Students will move away from a pathological view of Deaf People, seeing Deaf people as defective, and towards a Cultural view, seeing Deaf people as individuals with a unique linguistic and cultural background. Students completing the course will be able to identify the influence of culture on human expression. Students will be able to identify immediate and extended family signs.
American Sign Language 2	SIGN 102	By the end of SIGN 102, American Sign Language 2, 70% of students will be able to successfully comprehend a signed presentation that locates objects in a room. Students will properly mark the topic in ASL sentences using non-manual markers.
American Sign Language 3	SIGN 103	Students will be able to identify diverse aspects of culture in the Deaf community. By the end of SIGN 103, American Sign Language 3, 70% of students will be able to successfully produce a signed narrative about their life events. Students will be able to demonstrate the influence of culture on human expression by signing a response to a prompt. Students will successfully describe a location, using appropriate classifiers (descriptive, locative, instrumental, and elemental). Students will apply colloquialisms and ASL semantics while using appropriate non-manual markers.
American Sign Language 4	SIGN 104	Students will be able to demonstrate the influence of culture on human expression by giving detailed descriptions by comparing and contrasting techniques. Students will successfully apply appropriate classifiers telling a narrative. By the end of SIGN 104, American Sign Language 4, 70% of students will be able to successfully comprehend and produce a signed narrative by answering questions. Successfully apply clear instructions or explanations using classifiers and conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relatives clauses.
American Sign Language 5	SIGN 105	By the end of SIGN 105, American Sign Language 5, 70% of students will be able to successfully comprehend and produce a signed narrative by answering complex questions. Students will be able to demonstrate the influence of culture on human expression by giving detailed descriptions by comparing and contrasting techniques Students will successfully communicate personal health information in ASL through the use of classifier predicates. Students will successfully give a presentation using classifiers, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relatives clauses.
American Sign Language Structure	SIGN 210	Students will be able to differentiate between derivational and inflectional morphological processes in ASL
Applied Interpreting	SIGN 239	Students will identify two aspect of their interpreting process that needs improvement and come up with at least two strategies for improvement.
Cognitive Processing for Interpreters	SIGN 227	Given a piece of discourse in English correctly identify themes, main points, and details. Given a piece of discourse in ASL correctly identify themes, main points, and details.
Ethical Decision Making for Interpreters	SIGN 225	Students will effectively give well-rounded responses to hypothetical and real-life scenarios applying recognized industry standards and support their responses by referencing industry standard publications.
Fingerspelling	SIGN 108	Successfully demonstrate the use of lexicalized fingerspelling loan words in grammatically correct ASL sentences. Successfully recognize and record dates about events (historical and/or birthdays) as demonstrated to them in ASL by the instructor.
Interpreting	SIGN 231	Interpreting students will successfully apply Demand Control Schema (DC-S) Theory to the field of Sign Language Interpreting. Given a English narrative successfully give a functional equivalent message in ASL in a consecutive mode.
Interpreting with Classifiers	SIGN 250	Given a sequence of visual events, students will correctly identify appropriate classifier predicates in terms of type of movement root and classifier handshape. Be able to identify and use 13 mouth morphemes in ASL with accuracy and success.
Introduction to Deaf Studies	SIGN 201	Successfully identify three causes of deafness that occurs at/before birth (congenital) and three causes of deafness that occurs after birth (adventitious). Successfully compare and contrast the criteria for different pedagogical approaches to educating deaf and hard of hearing people.
Principles of Interpreting	SIGN 223	Students will understand the role, function and responsibilities of an interpreter. Students will know the history of the interpreting field including professional organizations. Students will memorize the RID Code of Professional Conduct.
Special Projects in Sign Language/Interpreting	SIGN 299	Complete a quality project from start to finish. This includes a proposal, set goals/objectives for the project and communication of results.
Translation: American Sign Language and English	SIGN 220	When presented with ASL sentences, a sample of students will successfully create grammatically correct functionally equivalent sentences in English.
Video Interpreting	SIGN 260	Successfully distinguish between (VRS) and video remote interpreting (VRI). Compare and contrast these two types of interpreting.
Vocabulary Building for Interpreters	SIGN 240	Accurately producing ASL equivalent of vocabulary discussed in class Producing ASL equivalency when no lexical equivalent is known. Given practice English nomenclature for a specific field, students will correctly come up with ASL equivalent signs or phrases.

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