Course description: "This course focuses on the transfer of information from spoken English to a signing system and from a signing system to spoken English. Students practice transliteration skills in a variety of planned and unplanned situations. Issues specific to educational interpreting...
The course covers "problems in educational interpreting" but doesn't teach us to interpret in those settings, necessarily. The focus as I understand it is teaching us to transliterate/sign English effectively in any interpreting situation.
I'm a 3rd year ASL-English Interpretation major at Columbia College Chicago. Up until now, my classes have been entirely in ASL (signed english not allowed or heavily discouraged).
I found out on my first day of "Transliteration and Educational Interpreting" that the focus of the class is...