Interpreter Training Program

ITP 163
English to ASL II

Interpreting Training Program

ITP 163 English to ASL II Home Page

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Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.”

Ambrose Bierce (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842)

ITP 163: English to ASL II Course Description:
This course is a continuation of ITP 161. In this course, we will work on developing fluency, facility and stamina, with increased difficulty of text, discourse and vocabulary from English to American Sign Language. We will work on increasing facility in receptive and expressive finger spelling. There will be more focus on developing listening skills in consecutive interpreting.

Prerequisite: ITP 161 with a 2.5 GPA or higher, or by permission.
Co-requisite: ITP 162

Required Text for Course:
Consecutive Interpreting: Effective Interpreting Series; Carol J. Patrie; Dawn Sign Press
Translating from English, Effective Interpreting Series; Carol J. Patrie; Dawn Sign Press