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American Sign Language/English Interpreting – B.S.

The American Sign Language – English Interpreting program from Kent State University prepares students to work with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in both educational and community settings, including schools and universities, businesses, medical and mental health agencies and social service offices, among others.

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Duration

4 years

Starting Date

January, August

Tuition Fee

$ 21,578 per year

Location

Kent, United States

About the program

The coursework and nationally certified instructors guide students in developing interpreting expertise, sign language fluency and professional ethics. Coursework encompasses interpreting process models and their application; analytical approaches to professional and ethical decision-making; and interpreting comparative analyses of English and American Sign Language through the study of linguistics, discourse structures and features, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.

Students learn self-assessment strategies for lifelong learning and gain roughly 400 clinical or practical hours. They also experience working with interpreter mentors. They also have preparation toward the National Interpreter Certification (NIC) and the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA).

The American Sign Language – English Interpreting program from Kent State University includes the following optional concentration:

The Community Setting Interpreting optional concentration is for students who are not seeking licensure to interpret in Ohio schools. Students in the concentration complete 400 hours at a community agency.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the program will be able to do the following:

Demonstrate native or near-native fluency in spoken and written English (80% of the time as per the NCIEC), American Sign Language, Deaf and non-Deaf cultures
Effectively interpret audio and video texts, as well as live presentations, across a variety of genres and be able to adapt interpretations to consumer modality preferences
Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal skills and professionalism across all classroom/program-related settings, while interacting with others, with an awareness of linguistic, cultural, contextual and personality differences
Make appropriate and effective ethical decisions, both in practical and authentic interpreting situations in alignment with RID’s Code of Professional Conduct and Kent State University’s Code of Student Conduct
Demonstrate adaptability and teachability
Articulate the impact of interpreting models, theories and best practices and how they inform one’s work
Recognize substantive linguistic and paralinguistic cues from others from a distance of three-to-10 feet in a variety of environments