Introduction to Healthcare Interpreting
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Overview
Subject area
COM
Catalog Number
3501
Course Title
Introduction to Healthcare Interpreting
Description
An introduction to the healthcare interpreting profession, leading to a broad understanding of health communication approaches to interpretation studies and bilingual healthcare challenges within diverse U.S. medical contexts. Students explore the various roles, relationships, and communicative tasks in interpreter-mediated medical encounters and examine wide-ranging communication strategies available to interpreters.
Pre- or Corequisite
034012
Liberal Arts
No
Department(s)
Credits
Minimum
3
Max
3
Components
Name
Lecture
Contact Hours
3