ASL 150 - Intralingual Interpreting

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Develop intralingual skills (English to English) in preparation for developing interlingual skills (English to ASL/ASL to English) by focusing on cognitive development in abstracting, summarizing, paraphrasing, memorizing and multi-tasking. Focus on semantics and restructuring that are suitable for ASL or English as the target language.

Prerequisite(s): ASL 114 and ASL 140 with a grade of C or better or permission of department chair.

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Integrate communication strategies with discourse analyses.
Contrast ASL as a language with artificial communication systems.
Describe cultural norms, values, issues, and trends within the Deaf community.
Explain appropriate ASL and interpreting etiquette.
Apply language-learning skills to interact in the Deaf community.
Formulate comparisons between students’ cultural experiences and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Deaf communities.