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Leadership & Supervision Certificate Program

- Cohort 2 beginning Fall 2008 -

The Leadership and Supervision Certificate Program (LSCP) is a 4-course series (12 semester hours of credit) of specialized coursework designed for individuals working in or aspiring to positions as lead interpreters, mentors, supervisors or leaders within an interpreting system. It is a series designed to provide students with effective strategies and tools for addressing and managing real-world issues and challenges faced in a variety of fast-growing and rapidly-changing contexts. Problem-solving and decision-making will be enhanced through the critical examination of cutting-edge research, theories and practice. Students will be prepared to apply systems analysis to better understand the complexities of various interpreting systems.

PRE-REQUISITE: RID certification and/or EIPA 4.0 or higher

This series is available for both undergraduate and graduate credit.

Highlights
Courses
Objectives
Requirements
Costs
Application Process

Highlights

First of its kind program meeting emerging needs
Formal online classes including readings and discussion
Professional peers and program staff from across the nation
Four semesters of online courses preparing individuals for leadership and supervision roles in the field of ASL -English Interpretation
12 undergraduate or graduate credits from the University of Northern Colorado
18 RID CEU's
Certificate of Professional Studies awarded upon successful completion

Courses

Online Orientation

Spring Semester 2008
INTR 405/505 Supervision of Interpreting Systems (3 credits)
This course focuses on supervision of interpreting systems. Students examine core skills shared by supervisors and analyze strategies that promote effective communication and resolve conflict in the workplace.

Summer Semester 2008
INTR 461/561 Conducting Diagnostic Assessments (3 credits)
This course provides supervisors of interpreters, lead interpreters and/or mentors with a common system for conducting skills performance assessments. The ultimate goal of skills assessment is to guide and facilitate the skill development activities of working interpreters. The systematic approaches taught in this course are based on miscue/error and feature analysis. Patterns of errors can be related to language and/or interpreting performance, and then used to determine skill development priorities. The system, tools and resources needed to implement effective diagnostic assessments are the focus of this course.

Fall Semester 2008
INTR 406/506 Leadership in Interpreting (3 credits)
This course introduces the major theories and concepts of leadership and their application to the field of interpreting and explores the link between leadership, ethics, and values.

Spring Semester 2009
INTR 460/560 Ethics in Leadership (3 credits)
This course will address the central issues of moral philosophy from the perspective of leadership studies. This course assumes that many familiar, abstract moral problems are made concrete in the exercise of leadership. One aim of this course will be to work through general ethical problems as these problems take on a particular guise in leadership contexts. The course also seeks to identify and
understand moral challenges that are peculiar to leadership studies.

Note: Courses 405 and 406 are courses that are also available within the Baccalaureate Degree.

Program Objectives

Describe and discuss the nature and form of interpreting systems
Discuss and apply the principles of effective supervision within various interpreting systems and learning organizations
Examine the implications of one's leadership style as it pertains to the nature of leadership within interpreting
Apply knowledge of leadership theory to the analysis of leadership case studies within the field of interpreting
Evaluate samples of interpreting performance in preparation for analysis
Synthesize data from error analysis into patterns of performance
Develop an intellectually sophisticated view of the relationship between morality and self-interest and, in particular, of the ways in which relationships are manifested in the exercise of leadership

Requirements

Participants in this program must have the following:

Internet access with highest speed possible
Email address
Windows 2000 or higher
Microsoft Office
Access to a DVD player
Access to a DVD digital camcorder for taping skills work during the distance mentoring course component

Costs

Costs for the 2008-2009 Leadership & Supervision Certificate Program are:

$239 per credit hour for undergraduate credit (instate and out-of state),
plus books and materials.
$330 per credit hour for graduate credit (instate and out-of state),
plus books and materials.

Future costs will be influenced by University and State policy.

Application Process

Cohort 2 beginning Fall 2008

Please complete and send both the UNC Extended Studies Application
and the UNC- DO IT Center application
in one package to:
DO IT Center
UNC Lowry campus
1059 Alton Way - Box 7
Denver, CO 80230
Attention: Susan Brown

Download & complete all sections of the
UNC-DO IT Center Application

Download & complete the
UNC Extended Studies Application