American Sign Language Interpreting COA

This program is designed to prepare for an entry level employment as an ASL/Englishinterpreter for deaf and hearing people. Students will be trained in thevarious aspects of interpreting and upon successful completion of the programshould be prepared for entry-level work in the field (with sufficientprocessing and language fluency). As an interpreter one will function as a culturaland linguistic facilitator between deaf person(s) and hearing person(s) in avariety of settings. 

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Upon successful  completion of this program, students will:

• Developreceptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language and Fingerspelling.

• Developknowledge and awareness of the similarities and differences between the DeafCulture/Deaf community and the hearing community.

• Accuratelyinterpret and transliterate between ASL and English in educational settings andcommunity settings.

• Applyprofessional standards, practices, and ethics, not limited to the tenets of theCode of Professional Conduct, to interpreting.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
A S L 003	American Sign Language III	4	S1
ASL 004	American Sign Language IV	4	S1
ASL 005	Introduction to Interpreting	3	S1
ASL 006	English-to-Sign Interpreting/Transliterating	4	S1
ASL 010	Sign-to-English Interpreting/Transliterating	4	S1
ASL 016	Creative Signing	2	S1
ASL 022	Professional Issues and Practice I	2	S1
ASL 023	Professional Issues and Practice II	2	S1
ASL 030	Fingerspelling I	1	S1
ASL 031	Fingerspelling II	1	S1
ASL 040	Introduction to Deaf Culture	3	S1
ASL 055	Interpreting	4	S1
ASL 065	Transliterating	4
	Electives - choose one
COMM 101	Public Speaking	3
COMM 121	Interpersonal Communication	3

Year 1, Fall =	ASL 3, ASL 30, ASL 40 + GE Electives	15 units
Year 1, Spring =	ASL 4, ASL 5, ASL 16 and ASL 31, + GE Electives	15 units
Year 2, Fall =	ASL 6, ASL 10, ASL 23 + GE Electives	15 units
Year 2, Spring =	ASL 55, ASL 65, ASL 22 + GE Electives	15 units
TOTAL UNITS:		60+ units

• Pre-requisite skills: ability to process rapid and complexauditory and visual input, the ability to synthesize and quickly translateconcepts for meaning into the target language.

Modern language

College of the Canyons Mt. San Antonio College El Camino College

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