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Nature of course request C00123 :

New course

Graduate

First term offered :
Course Prefix&Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
INT 616	Communication Studies for Interpreters II	4 -

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Com Study Terps II

Catalog Description: This is the second in a series of two courses where students examine interpersonal communication and discuss the role of an interpreter. Students will practice and apply the principles of interpretation/translation to interpersonal communication (e.g., varied contexts/styles/ registers/topics) via the demand control schema constructs.

Course Goal and Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: ¿ Improve critical thinking skills. ¿ Focus the study of interpersonal communication on the possibilities for dialogue. ¿ Facilitate dialogue between seminar participants. ¿ Apply demand-control schema to analyze communication situations. ¿ Explore interpreting practice that is consumer-driven, based on relevance to individual consumers in regard to their linguistic, cultural, and special needs. ¿ Identify the demands of the consumers and address those demands as they adapt their interpretation to the consumers.

Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): New Program

Faculty and facilities needed: No facilities needed. Year 1, no new faculty. Year 2, one more tenure line faculty needed.

Brief Course outline: ¿ Week 1: Course Overview ¿ Week 2: Critical analysis of communication events ¿ Week 3: Researching communication events/styles/tendencies/norms ¿ Week 4: Co-construction of meaning ¿ Week 5: Co-construction of meaning, cont. ¿ Week 6: Navigating group communication (versus dialogic and monologic) ¿ Week 7: Assessing consumers¿ communication and language needs ¿ Week 8: Responding to Hearing consumers¿ communication and language needs ¿ Week 9: Responding to Deaf/Hard of Hearing consumers¿ communication and language needs ¿ Week 10: Applying knowledge of communication to the interpreted communication event.

Approval Queue C00123

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