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.