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Originally Posted by Etoile
It could be that, but it could also be more specific. For example, within the realm of education, there are biology classes, computer classes, art classes...personally I would not accept a job in a college-level biology class, I barely passed in high school! For theater, there is modern stuff, performance art, Shakespeare... and so forth.
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That's right. It's like that at RIT. They actually have offices within the interpreter department that has their own team of interpreters for various colleges on campus... math, science, computers, liberal arts, etc.
There will be times when there's an emergency and an interpreter (for that department) is not immediately available. So, they will get an interpreter from a different department. In that class, that interpreter would have a few words that she is unable to sign since she is unfamiliar with the terms used in that major. For instance, I had a math interpreter in my computer programming class. As you know, there are a lot of programming lingo that uses the same words in other areas, but the definition and use is different... so the sign is different as well. That's why the interpreter had a hard time.