Date: Fridays

Course Outline:

Assignments:

Week 1:

January 9

Introductions, Meaning of Ethics; Morality; Professional Practitioners; & Meta-Ethical Principles

HW:
Values & Ethics (in your packet) and Decisions, Decisions Chapter One: Coming to Terms

Week 2:

 January 16

Discussion of Values & Ethics

Interpreter’s Role: From past to present

DD Ch 2: Models for Ethical Decision Making

HW: Review RID’s Code of Professional Conduct in packet;

ER Scenarios 1-50 pp 1-27;

DD Chapter 2: Models for Ethical Decision Making

Week 3:

January 23

Discuss DD Ch 3: Ethics of Professional Competence; ER Scenarios Part 1: 1-50, pp. 1-27

HW: Read DD Chapter 3: Ethics of Professional Competence; Read Ch. 1: Core Values & Paradigms in packet; 

ER Scenarios 51-100 pp.1-55

Week 4:

January 30

Discuss DD Ch 4: The Work Ethic of Sign Language Professionals;

Discuss ER Scenarios 51-100 pp. 1-55

HW: Read DD: Ch 4: Work Ethic of Sign Language Professionals;

Read Ch 2 & do activity: Exploring Your Identity in packet; Read ER Scenarios: Professionalism & Confidentiality pp 61-81

Week 5:

February 6

Midterm: DD Chapters 1-4 & ER Scenarios

Activity: “Walking down the Street”

Discuss ER Scenarios: Professionalism &  Confidentiality pp. 61-81

HW: Read DD Ch 5: Ethics of Professional Relationships;

Read Ch. 3 & do activity Intellectual & Ethical Maturity in packet;

Read ER Scenarios: “Are You Qualified; To Sign or Not”, Paying Your Dues” pp. 81-114 

Week 6:

February 13

Discuss Ch 5 DD: Ethics of Professional Relationships;

Discuss ER Scenarios: “Are You Qualified; To Sign or Not”, Paying Your Dues”

pp. 81-114

HW: Read & do activity Ch 4: When Values Collide: Conflict Resolution as a Part of Ethical Fitness in packet; Read ER Scenarios: “For Love or Money; Can We All Just Get Along?; Are You Off-Duty or Not? That is not in My Job Description” pp. 115-13

Week 7:

February 20

Discuss ER Scenarios “For Love or Money; Can We All Just Get Along? Are You Off-Duty or Not?; That’s Not in My Job Description”  pp. 115- 131

HW: Read “Interpreting A Foreign Culture: The Nacirema & the Rac” in packet & do activity; Read Ch: 5: Codes of Conduct/Ethics: Core Values in Print & do activity;

Read ER: “The Business Side; It’s A Small World; No One Told Me There’d Be Days Like These”; Get Me Out of Here!; The Things People Say; Nobody is Perfect pp. 132-160

Week 8:

February 27

Discuss “Interpreting A Foreign Culture: The Nacirema & the Rac”

Discuss ER Scenarios: “The Business Side; It’s A Small World; No One Told Me There’d Be Days Like These”; Get Me Out of Here!; The Things People Say; Nobody is Perfect pp. 132-160

HW: Read & do handout: Ch: 6 Application of Ethical Decision Making in packet; Read ER Scenarios: Medical Settings; Religious Events; Interpreting on Stage and Screen; Educational Settings” pp. 161-178

Week 9:

March 6

Discuss ER Scenarios: Medical Settings; Religious Events; Interpreting on Stage and Screen; Educational Settings” pp. 161-178

HW: Read Ch 7: Business Practices: Integrity in Action & do activity in packet;

Read ER Scenarios: Working With Children & Teenagers; Team Interpreting; Interpreting in Court; Conclusion” pp. 185-201

Week 10:

March 13

ER Scenarios: Working With Children & Teenagers; Team Interpreting; Interpreting in Court; Conclusion” pp. 185-201

HW: Read Ch 8: “Ethical Fitness” & do activity in packet;

Research Paper Due

Week 11:

March 20

Student Research Presentations

Weekly Journal Due

Week 12:

Finals Week

Final Written Exam

Student Research Presentations