• ASL 3340: Interpreting as a Profession

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310 and University Advanced Standing. Builds on the principles (ASL-to-English and English-to-ASL) for interpreting between Deaf and hearing people taught in Interpreting I. Studies the profession and skills necessary to be an interpreter in more specialized settings such as medical, legal, mental health, and theatre. Includes history, models, and professional certification procedures of interpreting; cognitive processes, physical and psychological factors, intercultural communication, ethics, and situational interpreting. Deaf students are encouraged to enroll.
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• ASL 3350: Consecutive Interpreting

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310, ASL 3060, matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis, and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce consecutive interpretations. Focuses on developing basic cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret rehearsed and/or spontaneous texts. Teaches to incorporate semantic choice, register, and ethical behavioral decisions and understand how they impact interpretation. Develops sets of technical or field-specific signs and applyies these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab. Taught in ASL.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
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• ASL 3360: Simultaneous Interpreting

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3350 and matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce simultaneous interpretations. Focuses on transitioning from consecutive interpreting to time-limited simultaneous interpreting. Develops cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret spontaneous texts. Teaches and incorporates more advanced semantic choices and negotiation techniques. Works with a variety of audience sizes and types. Teaches how ethics impact behavioral decisions and interpretations. Gives more consideration to developing sets of technical or field-specific signs and applying these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab. Taught in ASL.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
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• ASL 3375: Ethics for Interpreters

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310 and University Advanced Standing. Provides students advanced study and skills development in ethical decision making while interpreting between Deaf (including Deaf-blind) and hearing populations, including interpreting in Educational, Higher Ed. Legal, Mental Health and Medical situations. Helps students develop the ethical understanding needed to become truly professional interpreters. Provides extensive individual feedback to rapidly improve students' interpreting skills and understanding of the complex nature of interpreting ethics. This course may be taught as a hybrid.
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• ASL 3380: Transliteration

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3360, matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate messages using ASL signs in an English word order. Develops cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret spontaneous texts. Teaches and incorporates more advanced semantic choices and negotiation techniques. Works with a variety of audience sizes and types. Teaches how ethics impact behavioral decisions and interpretations. Gives more consideration to developing sets of technical or field-specific signs and applying these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab.
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• ASL 3400: ASL Visual-Spatial Production

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Studies the use of visual space in ASL productions and how to visualize and describe spatial relationships using ASL. Emphasizes skills necessary to describe space from different angles and point of views, focusing on areas typically difficult for English speakers. Provides extensive instruction and opportunity for students to improve both comprehension and production. Taught in ASL. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
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• ASL 3410: American Sign Language Linguistics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the linguistic study of ASL, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse structure. Emphasizes grammatical structures of ASL, including sign formation, pronominalization, identification and analysis of subjects and objects, classifiers, depicting verbs, pluralization, time concepts, and social interaction of language and culture within Deaf communities. Taught in ASL.
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• ASL 3510: History of Deaf People to 1817

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 202G or equivalent knowledge and University Advanced Standing. Explores chronologically to 1817 the formation and treatment of the Deaf community and culture. Emphasizes the rise of deaf education in a European setting and on the links to American Deaf education. Examines perceptions of deaf people and language across this period. Taught in ASL.
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• ASL 3520: History of Deaf People after 1817

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ASL 202G or equivalent and University Advanced Standing. Explores the evolution and treatment of the Deaf community and culture emphasizing activities in the United States chronologically from 1817 onward. Emphasizes the rise of oralism, the development of deaf residential schools, the emergence of American Deaf culture and the recognition of ASL as a true language. Taught in ASL..
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• ASL 3530: Modern Deaf Culture WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): (ASL 202G or department approval) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the culture of the American Deaf people following the recognition of American Sign Language as a legitimate, naturally-occurring sign language. Examines constructions of Deaf people as a linguistic minority whose mores, beliefs, values and traditions emanate from a shared worldview that differs markedly from the view usually ascribed to them by others. Taught in ASL with a writing component.
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  General Education Course

  This course is a general education course.