Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays

Course Outline:

Week 1: January 3

Course Syllabus;
ASL/English Improvement Plan

Unit 1 activity: Monologue

Tsunami

HW: Read Introduction to Consecutive Interpreting and Unit 1

Week 2: January 8 & 10

Discuss Introduction to CI: What is Consecutive Interpreting; 5 Step Follow Up; & Notetaking;

Read: History of CI & Competencies in CI

Videotape Tsunami transcript (in class)

Do Unit 1 activity (cont’d) Monologic & Dialogue

Discuss ASL Classifiers, do activity

ASL/English Improvement Plan due

HW: Read Unit 2

Week 3: January 15 & 17

ASL Classifiers (cont’d)

Do Catnaps transcript

Discuss Unit 2: Errors in Interpretation , Do 2.1 Newspaper Layout; 2.2 Captown Sound

Week 4: January 22 & 24

Do Memorization activity

Do 2.3 My Big Move

Discuss Unit 3: The Listening Phase

Do Unit 3.1; & 3.2 Sailing

1^st Videotape due: “3.2 Sailing”

Week 5: January 29 & 31

Discuss Semantic Clusters

Discuss Unit 4: Notetaking & Analysis

Do 4.1; 4.2 & 4.3

Midterm on CI: Introduction; Units 1-4, ASL Classifiers.

Week 6: February 5 & 7

Do Lou Fant’s 20 Sentences

Semantic Clusters (cont’d)

Discuss Unit 5: Memory

Go over Units 5.1, 5.2 & 5.3

Week 7: February 12 & 14

Discuss Unit 6: Reformulation

Do Unit 6.1 -6.3 in class

Week 8: February 19 & 21

2^nd Videotape & transcript due: 5.3 “ Big Grandma”

Discuss Unit 7: Monitoring & Correction

Go over Unit 7.2 & 7.3

Practice Voicing

Do Units 7.2-7.3 for HW

Week 9: February 26 & 28

Check student work in CI

Discuss Simultaneous Interpreting (SI)

Practice Simultaneous interpreting

Do practice tapes for HW

Week 10: March 4 & 6

Discuss features of SI

Simultaneous Interpreting Practice

Do practice tapes in class and for HW

Self & Peer Evaluations

Week 11: March 11 & 13

Discuss SI

Do practice SI tapes in class and for HW

3^rd Videotape & transcript due

Week 12: March 18 & 20 (last class)

Practice Log and Outside Activities Due

Final exam

Week 13: Finals Week

Individual Student appointments