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| New course | Graduate |
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| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| INT 618 | Ethics and Professional Practice | 3 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Ethics pro practice |
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Catalog Description: In this course, students examine current professional and ethical decision-making practices and explore the application of Demand-Control Schema (DC-S) to professional and ethical practices. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Upon completing this course, students will be able to: 1. Identify the salient EIPI demands of a given scenario or live observation. 3. Compare and contrast definitions of "ethics." 4. Employ the definitions ethics and the DC-S in analyzing hypothetical and in-vivo interpreting scenarios. 5. Lead and participate in supervision sessions to enhance ethical practice and develop keener decision-making skills. 6. Assess a given in-vivo situation in order to recognize the needs of the consumers and the situation. 7. Respond to the linguistic needs, cultural, and interpersonal needs. 8. Work effectively with a team interpreter in assessing and responding to the needs of consumers. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): New Program |
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Faculty and facilities needed: No facilities needed. Year 1, no new faculty. Year 2, one more tenure line faculty needed. |
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Brief Course outline: ¿ Week 1: What are ethics? What does it mean to be "ethical" as a professional? ¿ Week 2: What does our field tell us about "ethics" and the value of ethics? ¿ Week 3:Introduction to the variances in the communities we serve. Are "interpreting" and "transliterating" - are these sufficient labels? ¿ Week 4: Linguistic, educational, and thought world variances among consumers and interpreters. What do you mean not everyone experiences the world the way I do? ¿ Week 5: "It¿s a Deaf thing" - really? "It¿s a hearing thing" - really? ¿ Week 6: Decision-making frameworks for interpreting ¿ Week 7: Ethics as responsibility ¿ Week 8: Responding to the entire constellation of demands ¿ Week 9: Case Conferencing to improve our decision-making ¿ Week 10: Case conferencing to improve our decision-making |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | ----------------- | Approved | November 06 2009 |
| 2 - Division | Elisa Maroney | Approved | December 01 2009 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mickey Pardew | Approved | December 03 2009 |
| 5 - Graduate Committee | Mary Bucy | Approved | December 11 2009 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Katherine Schmidt | Approved | February 10 2010 |
| 7 - Dean | Hilda Rosselli | Approved | March 05 2010 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Rejected | March 10 2010 |
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