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INT - Interpreter Education

INT 107

TRANSLATION SKILLS

(3.00 CR.)

Prerequisite: INT 105 (was SCM 198). Continues developing fundamental skills needed for the task of interpreting Targets comprehending source language (either ASL or English), transferring content into memory store (breaking from original form), restructuring into target language, maintaining message equivalence, conveying implicit and inferred information, and applying appropriate discourse structure. Reviews Process Model of interpreting, and uses it to analyze translations. Further develops feedback skills essential to the team interpreting process. Lecture 3 hours per week.