Interpretation

Overview

The Interpretation program at Gallaudet University prepares hearing, deaf, and hard of hearing students to work as interpreters in various settings including medical, educational, business, mental health, and legal interactions.

Our programs provide an interdisciplinary approach to interpretation, accompanied by a state-of-the-art interpreting laboratory and extensive fieldwork. Graduates build a firm foundation of fluency in ASL and English, interpreting ethics and best practices, deaf culture, and communication skills.

Graduates with Interpretation from Gallaudet University will be able to:

• employ academic, professional, and world knowledge to the choices and decisions they make while interpreting.

• support and justify the use of points of view representing multi-cultural approaches in the work of interpretation.

• evaluate their own competencies for interpreting in relation to a variety of interpreting settings and participants in interpreted interactions.

• effectively interpret face-to-face encounters in dialogic settings with a variety of participants

• Graduates of the MA in Interpretation Program will be able to effectively interpret face-to-face encounters in monologic settings with a variety of participants.

• evaluate professional standards, practices, and ethics, not limited to the tenets of the Code of Professional Conduct, for use in their interpreting practice.

• appraise theoretical knowledge of interpretation studies in their interpreting practice, analyses, and research questions.

• effectively design and carry out all phases of small-scale research