Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Produce a meaning-based, simultaneous interpretation of the main points and supporting details of a given source message.

• Calculate the accuracy of an interpretation.

• Discuss the logistics, best practices, and special considerations of specialized settings.

Students will perform simultaneous interpretations on topics common in legal, medical, performance, and mental health settings. Students will discuss and demonstrate best practices for each setting.  Students will continue to demonstrate self-assessment and peer-review techniques to further identify patterns in their own skill development.

Students will be evaluated through assignments, in-class performance, quizzes, and formal evaluations of recorded ASL-to-English and English-to-ASL interpretations. Self-assessment and peer-assessments will be used to evaluate student skill development. Students will be assessed on their ability to produce a grammatically correct, simultaneous, meaning-based interpretation of a source message.

This course will cover the following topics:

• Simultaneous interpretation in legal, medical, performance, and mental health settings.

• Best practices in legal, medical, performance, and mental health settings.

• Assessing fluency and accuracy of an interpretation.