Educational Interpreting: Middle/Secondary Settings

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare students to interpret in middle and secondary school settings. Content will include orientation to the activities, middle/secondary school curriculum, sign vocabulary, language development, psycho-social development and issues pertinent to middle and secondary school students. The course also includes information about teaching methodologies and strategies for interpreting classroom discourse and various content areas. Students will learn how to prepare the middle/secondary students to request and work with interpreters. Vocabulary for various middle and secondary school content areas will be introduced. Students will also learn about interpreting for foreign language courses. Students will simultaneously interpret English-to-ASL and ASL-to-English, middle and secondary level texts.