- Demonstrate advanced linguistic competence and flexibility in American Sign Language (ASL) and English by effectively communicating in a variety of routine personal and professional situations with native and non-native ASL signers of varied age, race, gender, education, socio-economic status, and ethnicity.
- Perform the functions and responsibilities of a novice professional ASL- English interpreter in solo and teamed practice.
- Apply academic knowledge about the responsibilities, ethics, aptitudes, and professional credentialling of ASL-English interpreters in order to advocate for Deaf, Deafblind, and hard of hearing people’s access to qualified interpreting and other accommodations in organizations, institutions, and contexts.
- Demonstrate skills and techniques for analysis and transfer of message meanings to render effective translations and interpretations, whether consecutively or simultaneously.
- Analyze and apply knowledge of discourse settings and structures for efficient, effective interpreting and translation practice.
- Demonstrate professionalism skills and temperament that demonstrate integrity, self-awareness, and discretion by monitoring and managing personal and professional role conflicts and conflicts of interest.
- Apply internalized, objective and de-personalized language to discuss one’s interpreting and translation work and that other colleagues.
- Assess and advocate for effective and efficient interpreting and translation practice.
- Engage in culturally competent interpreting practice and research with Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations.
- Articulate how systemic inequality and oppression are experienced by Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing individuals in society in order to uphold a culturally sensitive treatment of them in the face of historic societal acts of audism and oppression.
- Integrate and apply perspectives and approaches ASL-English interpreting provision that uphold social equity and Deaf cultural norms and values.
- Apply interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks relevant to practice and research in translation and interpretation.
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Type of Program
- Undergraduate Program
