Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Apply professional communication skills and demeanor within a post-secondary educational setting.

• Apply theoretical knowledge of the role and function of an interpreter within a post-secondary setting.

• Set individual goals for improvement using reflective practices and peer feedback.

• Discuss the logistics and process of interpreting in a given environment.

• Record hours related to interpreting and create accurate invoices.

This course will consist of the following activities:

• Weekly supervision sessions with instructor

• Interpreting ongoing assignments in a college classroom

• Preparing for interpreting assignments

• Work collaboratively with interpreting team. 

• Maintain a record of hours spent preparing for assignments, tutoring hours, observation hours, and interpreting hours.

• Submit invoices of interpreting hours to course instructor.

Students will be assessed on interpreting work, completion of community hours, reflections, professionalism, and demeanor. Students must complete 60 hours of class time, assignments, tutoring, and community hours. 

Course content includes:

• Continued development of expressive and receptive simultaneous interpreting skills.

• Practice successful communication between the student interpreter and team, consumer, and presenter.

• Develop an understanding of the appropriate location of an interpreter in a given situation.

• Use of appropriate professional dress and demeanor, interpreting techniques, preparation, processing, clarification techniques, and production of an interpretation.

• Development of strategies to control performance anxiety and to become comfortable interpreting in front of an audience.

• Discussing and analyzing personal skill development 

• Calculating time spent preparing for, discussing, and performing an interpretation.