The Pre-Interpreting Minor is an 21-credit-hour program designed for undergraduate students with advanced ASL proficiency who are interested in pursuing a career in signed language interpreting. Grounded in the recognition that interpreter education requires advanced ASL fluency and foundational cognitive processing competencies, the Pre-Interpreting Minor provides students with the essential knowledge, applied language use, and conceptual frameworks that underlie interpreting practice. Through coursework emphasizing the interpreter’s role, psychological effects, co-construction of meaning, and the dynamics of mediated communication, students begin developing the readiness necessary for interpreting education.

This minor prepares students for the advanced study needed to pursue a career in ASL-English interpreting.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ASLD 501	Introduction to the ASL/English Interpreting Profession	3
ASLD 502	Theories of Interpreting: Co-Constructions of Meaning	3
ASLD 505	American Sign Language V (ASL V)	3
ASLD 521	Discourse Analysis of ASL	3
ASLD 601	Applied ASL Linguistics	3
ASLD 603	Interpreting: Mediated Interactions in Communications	3
ASLD 610	Psychological Effects of Interpreting	3
Total Hours		21