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TRIN 1041 - Beginning Skills of Interpreting

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course focuses on development and practice of consecutive interpreting, sight translation, and note-taking skills. Coursework includes relevant theoretical and practical materials related to interpreting. The course covers topic preparation skills in the context of classroom exercises, and application of interpreter codes of ethics and standards of practice in classroom activities.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): TRIN 1021  with a grade of C or higher, TRIN 1031  with a grade of C or higher, and language proficiency level equivalent to the American College Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) advanced-high or higher rating in both English and the second language, or instructor consent.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Cognitive and analytical skills of interpreting
    1. Listening for the main idea
    2. Summarizing the main idea
    3. Linking ideas
    4. Chunking information
  2. Situational Management
    1. Pausing and waiting
    2. Directing participant speed, pauses, waits, use of first person
    3. Asking for clarification
    4. Working with unfamiliar terms or concepts which do not exist in both languages or cultures
    5. Maintaining the interpreter¿s role, focus, neutrality
    6. Transparency of roles and actions
    7. Ethical decision making
  3. Note-Taking
    1. Speech and listening analysis for main ideas
    2. Mini-summaries
    3. Mind-maps
    4. Links
    5. Verticality and hierarchies
    6. Symbols
    7. Delivery
  4. Sight Translation
    1. Scanning texts for general information
    2. Parsing, chunking, and paraphrasing
    3. Textual analysis
    4. Derive meaning from contextual clues
  5. Aspects of language
    1.   Register
    2. Addition and embellishment
    3. Slang
    4. Vulgar Language
    5. Jargon and technical vocabulary
    6. Numbers
    7. Idiomatic expressions
    8. False Cognates
    9. Syntax and morphology

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate progression of consecutive interpreting skills.
  2. set personal goals based on self-assessment.
  3. demonstrate decision-making skills in ethically challenging situations.
  4. apply interpreter codes of ethics and standards of practice.
  5. integrate knowledge of the different interpreting roles into practice.

Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None


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