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Cross-Cultural Communication and Interpreting
ASL3330

I am not scheduled to teach ASL3330: Cross-Cultural Communication and Interpreting this semester.

Please note: All information currently available on this ASL3330 site represents work and due dates relevant to the Spring 2011 semester. Please check back during later semesters for updated information on this course. Thank you.

News & Announcements

5 January 2011 Back after four years, the new 3330 class site is updated. Let’s get this party started.

25 August 2010 The new class site is up and running, including a link to the new online classroom we’re using this semester (ning.com has been retired). Let me know if there are any problems. Also, kudos to those who passed their certification tests this summer!

22 December 2009 ASL3350 has concluded for the Fall 2009 semester. Thanks to the guinea pigs this semester; your feedback has been invaluable. Congratulations to those who passed the state and NIC written exams this fall.

26 August 2009 The class site is up now; we’ll go over this in class. Also available now is the online classroom where your written and video assignments should be posted. Any questions? Email me.

29 July 2009 Congratulations to all those (five? six? seven?) who passed the Utah State written, performance, and NIC written exams this summer. You bring honor to us all. The class schedule has been partially updated for Fall 2009 semester.

22 December 2008 ASL3350 has concluded for the Fall 2008 semester. Thanks to all of the students in the Fall 2008 course; we had a good time. Best of luck to those students taking the Written Test in December and January, and congratulations to those who passed the NIC Written Test this semester.

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About This Course

This course is a continuation of ASL 3310, an introduction to bidirectional (ASL-to-English and English-to-ASL) interpreting between Deaf and nondeaf people.

While we discuss issues germane to the interpreting field, this course focuses more heavily on 1) interpreting with special emphasis on intercultural communication, and 2) the development of language understanding with respect to intercultural communication. (This is not an “interpreting” class, per se; the groundwork for producing interpreting work begins in ASL3350: Consecutive Interpreting and in the Language Lab.)

Upon your successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

  1. understand and deconstruct foundational, historical, global theories of ‘culture’ and intercultural communication studies (chapters 2–3)
  2. understand and distinguish unique cultural features and behaviors of American Deaf and nondeaf people (chapters 4–6)
  3. ascertain reasons for cultural differences and then describe and apply teachniques for creating equivalent cultural adjustments (Mindess, 2006) in interpretations (chapters 8–11, 13)
  4. understand how technology and interpreting trends affect cultural climates (chapters 7, 12)
  5. develop fundamental linguistic skills and reasoning and then create equivalent meanings between spoken English and American Sign Language (in-class discourse analysis and praxis)

In addition, this course will help prepare candidates to take the Utah State and/or RID NIC written examinations.

 

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asl & deaf studies Utah Valley University
Doug Stringham
Adjunct Instructor
Department of ASL & Deaf Studies
Utah Valley University
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Last updated: January 5, 2011