MATC 2022-23 Catalog

INDSGN – INTP

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

INTP – Interpreter Technician (Department: 533) INTP-126 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 1 The intent of this course is to provide the student with a basic understanding of American Sign Language – the form of sign language most commonly used by deaf adults when communicating with each other. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Five hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Students enrolled in programs other than Interpreter Technician may be able to use this course (and INTP-127) to satisfy elective requirements. INTP-127 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 2 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 1 and is designed to further provide students with knowledge of fundamental survival signs. Students also acquire an awareness of the di ff erences between deaf and hearing cultures. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Ten hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-126 with minimum grade of C or instructor consent. INTP-128 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 3 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 2. It is designed to build daily conversational skills and to increase cultural awareness and sensitivity. Students will re fi ne grammatical skills and practice sentence types in guided ASL conversations and formal presentations. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Fifteen hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-127 with minimum grade of C or instructor consent. INTP-129 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 4 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 3 and is designed to broaden the topics students are able to discuss in ASL. News events, daily lives and social activities will be discussed and formal presentations will be made. Conversational pro fi ciency is expected by the end of this course. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Twenty hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-128 with minimum grade of C or instructor consent.

INDSGN-128

Credits: 3

INTP-131

Credits: 3

Designer/Client Relationships This course will focus on presentation selling and marketing strategies of interior design services and solutions. Emphasis is on cultivating and maintaining partnerships with clients and vendors. Students will develop oral, written and graphic presentations for residential and commercial design scenarios. INDSGN-131 Credits: 3 Portfolio Development and Application This course will prepare students for entry level job interviews. Emphasis will be on appropriate use of industry terminology and presentation skills and tools. Students will organize a portfolio of best works and will participate in a series of mock interviews. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-110. INDSGN-170 Credits: 1 Interior Design Internship II This course will explore advanced professional business practices, including ethics and standards of the interior design profession. In addition, the student will observe and participate in work experience under the supervision of faculty in the Interior Design program. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-120. INDSGN-172 Credits: 2 Revit for Interior Design Students learn the fundamental concepts of AutoDesk Revit, from programming and layout to construction documentation. Process will include basic elements in Revit like walls, doors and glass partitions. Design sketches and DWG fi les will be implemented into the work fl ow. Students will work with Revit tools, design options, color fi ll plans, area calculations, perspective views, walkthroughs, detailed schedules, and material lists. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-110. INDVTS – Individualized Credits: 3 Career Assessment and Portfolio Development This course is the preliminary component in the Individualized Technical Studies degree program. Students will develop a career portfolio that identi fi es their career goals and enables them to create a formal educational plan to attain their goals. The portfolio will document employment history, educational experiences, and military and community service, and identify the skills and competencies students have acquired related to their career goals. The completed portfolio will be the basis for establishing an Individualized Technical Studies degree path. Technical Studies (Department: 825) INDVTS-102

Interpreting/Transliterate 1 This course provides students with intensive instruction in American Sign Language. Primary emphasis is placed on the acquisition of everyday vocabulary and the usage of basic ASL sentence structures. Language taught will focus on communicative purposes and everyday types of interaction. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-127 with minimum grade of C. Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-133. INTP-133 Credits: 3 American Sign Language Linguistics Provides students with instruction on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics of American Sign Language (ASL). These linguistic features are analyzed and compared to English language structures. Students are expected to apply these grammatical features in their conversational use of ASL. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP 127 with minimum grade of C. INTP-138 Credits: 3 Interpreting/Transliterate 3 In this skill-building course, students work to develop their expressive and receptive interpreting skills. Materials containing general vocabulary and everyday types of information will be the focus of interpreting exercises. Activities focus on developing ASL/English interpretations with increasingly di ffi cult levels of speed and technical complexity. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-143, INTP-145 and INTP-147 with minimum grade of C. INTP-139 Credits: 3 Orientation to Deafness This course acquaints students with the types and causes of hearing impairment, the anatomy and physiology of the hearing mechanism and the principles of audiology. The acquisition of language in both deaf and hearing persons is compared and contrasted. Students are also given an orientation to the Deaf community. INTP-143 Credits: 3 Interpreting/Transliterate 2 This course continues to provide students with intensive instruction in American Sign Language. Conversational patterns of ASL, usage of increasingly complex grammatical structures and continued expansion of vocabulary are stressed. The development of receptive ASL skills is a major area of focus. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-131 and INTP-133 with minimum grade of C.

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