Associate of Arts - Sign Language Interpretation

Program Description

This pre-major is designed for the student who plans to transfer as a junior to complete the emerging Bachelor of science degree in ASL/ English Interpreting, or the Bachelor of arts degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a concentration in Interpreter Training.

Program Outcomes:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the role of a professional Sign Language Interpreter.
• Demonstrate an ability to effectively incorporate predicting skills in processing a message into an interpreted product.
• Demonstrate competency in consecutively processing spoken English to signed ASL in an effective and accurate interpreted product.
• Demonstrate competency in consecutively processing signed ASL to spoken English in an effective and accurate interpreted product.
• Demonstrate competency in consecutively processing spoken English to signed ASL, as well as, consecutively processing signed ASL to spoken English into an appropriate interpreted product.
• Demonstrate readiness for transfer.