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Discipline: zHumanities & Social Sciences: Sign Language Interpreting Unit
Course Name Course Number
American Sign Language 1 SIGN 101
  • 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 1 - Honors SIGN 101H
  • Students completing the course will be able to identify the influence of culture on human expression.
  • 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 will be able to identify immediate and extended family signs.
American Sign Language 2 SIGN 102
  • Students will be able to identify the influence of culture on human expression.
  • By the end of SIGN 102, American Sign Language 2, 70% of students will be able to successfully comprehend and produce a signed narrative sequence by comparing two people’s qualities when given a hypothetical situation.
  • Students will properly mark the topic in ASL sentences using non-manual markers.
American Sign Language 3 SIGN 103
  • Students will apply colloquialisms and ASL semantics while using appropriate non-manual markers.
  • 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 be able to identify diverse aspects of culture in the Deaf community.
  • Students will successfully describe a location, using appropriate classifiers (descriptive, locative, instrumental, and elemental).
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.
  • 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.
  • Students will successfully apply appropriate classifiers telling a narrative.
American Sign Language 5 SIGN 105
  • Students will successfully give a presentation using classifiers, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relatives clauses.
  • Students will successfully communicate personal health information in ASL through the use of classifier predicates.
  • 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
American Sign Language Structure SIGN 210
  • • Students will be able to identify ASL articulators and contrast them with spoken language articulators.
  • • Students will be able to describe why signs take longer to articulate than words.
  • Students will be able to differentiate between derivational and inflectional morphological processes in ASL
Cultures in the Deaf Community SIGN 202
  • Students will be able to correctly contrast specific aspects of cultures in the Deaf community.
  • 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 will create a project that emphasizes the priority that the Deaf community puts on visual storytelling
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.
  • Interpreting students will successfully apply Demand Control Schema (DC-S) Theory to the field of Sign Language Interpreting.
Fingerspelling SIGN 108
  • Students will identify and produce proper handshapes for the manual alphabet and numbers (1-100+) and be knowledgeable of correct positioning for spelling words and numbers.
  • • Students produce numbers in isolation as well as incorporate them into signs.
  • • Students will master the speed and fluency of fingerspelling, numbers, and lexicalizing while maintaining clarity and accuracy.
Interpreting 1: Skills, Equity, and Ethics SIGN 227
  • • Students will define the impact of the context’s components: participants, setting, and purpose.
  • Students will analyze the discourse to find implicit and explicit meaning in the source language.
  • Students will differentiate key concepts and terms related to diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, anti-racism, and accessibility (DEISAA+) in the interpreting field.
Interpreting 2: Skills, Equity, and Ethics SIGN 231
  • Students will produce an understanding of key concepts of power, privilege, and oppression (PPO) in the interpreting field.
  • Students will monitor and integrate a working interpreter’s ethical decision-making process.
  • Students will demonstrate and assess consecutive interpreting from source language to target language.
Interpreting 3: Skills, Equity, and Ethics SIGN 232
  • Students will predict and prepare for multifaceted demands in the interpreting field.
  • Students will navigate systems of power within the field of sign language interpreting and the Deaf community.
  • Students will engage in supervision through case conferencing with mentors.
Interpreting 4: Skills, Equity, and Ethics SIGN 239
  • Students will assess consecutive, simultaneous, and interactive interpreting from the source language to the target language.
  • Students will apply prediction skills, ethical decision-making, and work collaboratively in interpreting scenarios.
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 compare and contrast the criteria for different pedagogical approaches to educating deaf and hard of hearing people.
  • Students will explore a variety of causes for hearing loss.
  • Students will debate the current relevant issues facing Deaf education and the systematic barriers nationwide.
Introduction to Interpreting SIGN 223
  • Students will identify the role, function, and responsibilities of an interpreter.
  • Students will summarize the history of the interpreting field, including professional organizations.
  • Students will analyze Code of Professional Conduct by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and apply it to interpreting scenarios.
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 English sentences, a sample of students will successfully create grammatically correct functionally equivalent sentences in ASL.
  • 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.