MATC 2024-25 Catalog

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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 minimum grade of C. 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 toASL 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 minimum grade of C. 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. ITDEV – IT Development Programming (Department 152) ITDEV-110 Credits: 3 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C# This course introduces the fundamental concepts of programming from an object-oriented

perspective. Topics include class design, simple data types, control structures, storage allocation, scope and simple data structures (arrays). Students will develop algorithms to solve programming problems and use debugging techniques to test their solutions. The course emphasizes good software engineering principles while developing fundamental programming skills in the context of a language that supports the object-oriented paradigm. Emphasis will be placed on class design, implementation and problem solving. MATC strongly recommends that students take this course concurrently with ITDEV-l17 Logic and Problem-Solving. Prerequisite(s): Complete Credits: 3 Intermediate Object Oriented Programming This course focuses on intermediate object oriented concepts, such as encapsulation, data hiding, inheritance, and polymorphism. Students will be introduced to fi le I/O, data abstraction, pointers and database access. Emphasis will be on class design, implementation and problem solving using databases. MATC strongly recommends that students complete ITDEV-110, or have the equivalent skills, prior to enrollment in this course. Prerequisite(s): Complete Logic and Problem-Solving This course presents a formal approach to logical thinking and problem-solving using mathematical and programming logic structures. For students to think logically and solve problems, they need to think abstractly. This means to use logically valid forms of argument, both direct and indirect, to derive new results from those already known to be true. This course will teach these mathematical and programming logic structures in context with fundamental object-oriented programming principles. MATC strongly recommends that students take this course concurrently with ITDEV-110 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming. ITDEV-140 Credits: 3 Programming With JAVA Using the latest Java SE Development Kit, students will learn and apply Java programming language to create both console and graphical user interface applications. Topics explored include data types, decisions, loops, methods, data structures, I/O, exceptions, object-oriented skills, user interfaces and the use of relational databases. Successful completion of ITDEV-110 prior to enrollment in the class is required or instructor’s permission. Prerequisite(s): Complete ITDEV-110. ITDEV-149 Credits: 3 Data Reporting Introduces database querying and reporting using leading tools and frameworks. Learners will design, create and publish reports that access diverse datasets using a reporting tool. Additional topics include SQL, report distribution, data analysis, data security and ethical handling of sensitive data. ITDEV-117. ITDEV-115 ITDEV-110. ITDEV-117 Credits: 3

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 dif fi cult levels of speed and technical complexity. Prerequisite(s): Completion of or currently enrolled in INTP-128. INTP-139 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 of C. 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 Credits: 3

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