MATC 2023-24 Catalog

INTP–IT

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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 Interpreting/Transliterate 1 This course provides students with intensive instruction on 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): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP 127 and 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): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-127. 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): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP 138. consent. INTP-131 Credits:3

INTP-139

Credits:3

INTP-151 Credits:3 Educational Interpreting: Theory and Function This course explores the role an interpreter has in educational settings. Theories related to the historical philosophies of deaf education and the rami fi cations for deaf students are discussed. Sign language systems used in school settings are analyzed and receptive/expressive interpreting activities focus on school-based texts. Tutoring skills, note-taking skills and other duties related to the educational setting are covered. (Class is taught without voice.) Prerequisite(s): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-129. INTP-152 Credits:2 Concept Mapping This course provides an ongoing intermediate to advanced level discourse analysis of both ASL and English. Students will study general discourse issues as well as topics speci fi c to ASL and spoken English. This course also outlines implications for accurate interpretation in analyzing the source and target languages. INTP-153 Credits:3 Occupational Experience Students are assigned work with a human service provider who works extensively with deaf clients and/or deaf employees. The particular interests of students are matched with human service providers with similar interests (i.e., medical, mental health and general freelance work). Students then freelance interpret on a full-time basis for an eight-week period. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-144 and INTP-151 with a minimum gradeofC. IT – Information Technology (Department 107) IT-107 Credits:3 Social Networking and Business This course is an introduction to social media, communication and collaboration tools utilized professionally in a business environment. Students will learn to set up, use, and support these tools. Emphasis will be placed on proper business communication, development of a personal resume, and the implementation of a professional persona using social media that supports work within the information technology fi eld.

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. Prerequisite(s): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-127. 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): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-128. INTP-144 Credits:3 Interpreting/Transliterate 4 This course continues to build the student’s knowledge of the interpreting process. Students further develop their interpreting skills in both expressive and receptive modes. Materials containing the types of information encountered during freelance interpreting are the focus of interpreting exercises. Extensive use is made of videotaped materials during independent lab work. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-138 with minimum grade of C. INTP-145 Credits:2 The Interpreting Process This course teaches students how to analyze texts at the lexical, sentential, and textural levels for the purposes of interpretation. Conceptualization, concept-mapping, paraphrasing, and consecutive interpreting are some techniques that are explored to enhance the student’s ability to render equivalent messages from ASL to English or from English to ASL. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-133 with minimum grade ofC. INTP-147 Credits:3 Interpreting Ethics Students study the history of the interpreting profession, the modes of the interpreting process and the RID Code of Professional Conduct (CPC). Emphasis will be placed on interpretation of the CPC, ethical behavior as an interpreter and learning to make ethical decisions in the workspace. Students will apply knowledge of the RID CPC during extensive role-plays and group interactions. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-131 and INTP-133 with a minimum grade of C.

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