Practice advanced interpreting skills, standards, and protocols, with a focus on active listening, linguistic equivalency, vocabulary development, and ethical decision-making. In addition, practice managing the flow of interpreting sessions, such as maintaining pace, ensuring transparency, facilitating understanding and communication, and respecting communicative autonomy of all parties in fast-paced health care and other settings of varying dynamics and complexity.
This class requires live online meetings and the use of Canvas with no required in-person meetings. Live online meetings require the use of CityZoom, Zoom’s web conferencing platform in Canvas, using an internet enabled device. Students will also complete coursework in Canvas, which must be accessed using an internet enabled device. This class is part of CityOnline and is half term. For student support and other services, students can check Welcome to CityOnline. This course includes multiple skills assessments which include external evaluators, such as language coaches. These assessments will be done via Zoom videoconference mimicking remote video medical interpreting (VMI). For course details, students must check the instructor's website.
PREREQ: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in: HLTH 81C or Approval of the Health Education Department