Course Title:
Ethical Decision Making
Course Description:
Explores ethical standards and dilemmas in American Sign Language–English interpreting and other professions through discussions, hypothetical situations, and role-playing. Topics include culturally objective standards, ethics and professional principles, power relations within groups, and the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) code of ethics. Students examine various alternatives to a duty-based approach to the RID code and draw upon ethical fieldwork experience to analyze the principles that guide ethical decision making among professional interpreters.
Fall Offering:
Lab/Coreq 1:
ASL U651
Spring Offering:
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
Prerequisite 1:
ASL U515
Summer 2 Offering:
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N