0878-502-02 – Advanced English to ASL Interpreting
Course Syllabus (NTID - Fall, 2007)
Course ID: Advanced English to ASL Interpreting
Room Location: 60
Meeting Times: Tuesday & Thursdays 4-6 pm, Fall Quarter, 2007
Instructor: Brian Cerney, Ph.D, becdis@rit.edu
Course Description: In this course students advance their skills in simultaneously producing equivalent ASL messages from spoken English source messages. Single speaker texts on specific topical areas will be the focus of this course. Students will continue to develop their English vocabulary, ASL vocabulary, interpreting analysis skills and strategies for team interpreting. Warm-up exercises will be performed as part of the self-care regimen recommended for sign language interpreters.
Course Materials:
• Feinstein, G. W., (2006). Programmed College Vocabulary, Seventh Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Simon & Schuster.
Session # & Date: Activities
Sept. 4 (T) Course Introduction and Interpreting Practice
Session 1 Pre-test – “Forty winks”
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 1-4
Analyze/Critique Pre-test
Read: Linguistic Transference and Interference: Interpreting Between English and ASL (Davis)
Sept. 6 (H) Lecture: “Expansion” Review
Session 2 Linguistic Transference and Interference discussion
Pre-test analysis/critique Discussion
Plan of Work discussion (Based on pre-test, determine skills areas to be addressed during weeks 1-5)
Assignment: Interpreting Practice – Assertiveness Training
Hand in Plan of Work
Sept. 11 (T) “Expansion” Review and application.
Session 3 Interpreting practice
Vocab. Quiz #1 (1-4)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 5-7
Sept. 13 (H) Student General Topic Lectures Part 1
Session 4 Interpreting Practice with peer feedback and instructor evaluation
Assignment: Project #1: “Time Management”
Sept. 18 (T) Interpreting practice
Session 5 Vocab. Quiz #2 (5-7)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 8-9
Sept. 20 (H) Student General Topic Lectures Part 2
Session 6 Interpreting Practice with peer feedback and instructor evaluation
Sept. 25 (T) Interpreting practice
Sesssion 7 Vocab. Quiz #3 (8-9)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 10-12
Sept. 27 (H) Interpreting practice
Session 8 Interpreting Practice with peer feedback and instructor evaluation
Oct. 2 (T) Colonomos Training
Session 9 Vocab. Quiz #4 (10-12)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 13-14
Oct. 4 (H) Student Biographical Lectures
Session 10 Interpreting Practice with peer feedback and instructor evaluation
Oct. 9 (T) Midterm Exam - Pom Pom Judging
Session 11 (Simultaneous video recordings in Lab Stations)
Gishing Texts - Pom Pom Judging
Oct. 11 (H) "Interpreting 12-Step Programs" - Smitty
Session 12 Vocab. Quiz #5 (13-14) DUE
Project #1: “Time Management” DUE
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 16-17
Oct. 16 (T) Discuss/assign Project #2
Session 13 Carol Patrie - Translation Analysis
Oct. 18 (H) Guest Lectures/Interpreting Practice
Session 14 Vocab. Quiz #6 (16-17)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 18-19
Oct 23 (T) Guest Lectures/Interpreting Practice
Session 15 Interpreting practice with instructor evaluation
Oct. 25 (H) Guest Lectures
4 - 5 pm: Jaya Save-Mundra
5 - 6 pm: TBD
Session 16 Vocab Quiz #7 (18-19)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 20-21
Oct. 30 (T) Guest Lectures/Interpreting Practice
Session 17 Interpreting practice with instructor evaluation
Project #2: “Abitron Ratings” Due
Nov. 1 (H) Guest Lectures/Interpreting Practice
Session 18 Vocab. Quiz #8 (20-21)
Assignment: Programmed College Vocabulary 22-23
Nov. 6 (T) Guest Lectures/Interpreting Practice
Session 19 Interpreting practice with instructor evaluation
Nov. 8 (H) Course Evaluation
Session 20 Vocab. Quiz #9 (22-23)
Final exam Prep
Final Exam will be scheduled during Final Exams week