ITP 112 - Service Learning

 
Description
This course is designed to strengthen the student’s language and cultural knowledge through direct experience working alongside the local Deaf community. Students will develop and apply a community-based project as a way to work with, rather than for, the community to help to strengthen the Deaf community’s presence and rapport with future working interpreters. In this way, the students will develop skills to set appropriate boundaries, work as a member of a team and the ability to listen to the community members to find out what their needs might be.

1. Articulate connections between academic coursework and their service-learning experiences through journaling.
2. Delineate the interpreter’s role and responsibility to the local Deaf community.
3. Identify which behaviors are role-appropriate for interpreters in a Deaf-led setting without over asserting or over identifying.
4. Identify demographics and characteristics of the local Deaf community, including what barriers they experience accessing interpreting services and other resources.
5. Explain service learning to their Deaf partners and how their project intends to affect the community.

1. Acculturation
2. Reciprocity
3. Social Capital
4. Experiential Learning Theory
5. Reflective Practice
6. Civic Responsibility

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