Deaf Community Service Learning II
Overview
Service Learning:
- Supporting Deaf people and organizations in the community
- Collaborating with peers
- Culturally appropriate communication
- Positionality and its impact on student-community interaction
- Participating in the reciprocity pool
Practical Learning Days:
- Managing the demands of all-day intensive interpreting practice
- Hosting Deaf community members at social gatherings on campus
- Making appropriate choices for interacting as a bilingual bicultural hearing person
Reflective Learning:
- Journaling
- Goal setting for ongoing growth and development
- Personal biases – identifying them and what to do about them
- Sharing in reflective discussions with peers, in ASL
- lecture/seminar
- field work
- small group work
- guest speakers
- course readings/video
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Evaluation will be based on a combination of individual and group work, and at the instructor’s discretion may include presentations, written assignments, papers, quizzes and/or exams.
A typical distribution of graded assignments follows:
- Field Research Group Project, Summary: 10%
- Field Research Group Project, Presentation: 10%
- Practical Learning Log: 10%
- Service Learning Log: 10%
- Written Reflections: 20%
- Reflections in ASL: 20%
- Professional Accountability: 20%
This is a letter graded course.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Support the value of reciprocity when working with the Deaf community
- Establish and maintain appropriate professional boundaries
- Exhibit strong communication skills in both ASL and English;
- Maintain cohesive working relationships while using ASL and English with a variety of language users
- Demonstrate ability to appropriately introduce oneself, initiate and/or join conversations, make others feel comfortable
- Identify and reflect on own biases
- Use ASL to engage in seminar discussions about community learning experiences
- Use ASL to engage in reflections on learning related to interpreting role-played scenarios
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for INTR 2230 |
|---|---|
| Athabasca University (AU) | DOUG INTR 2130 (2.5) & DOUG INTR 2230 (2.5) = AU LANG 3XX (3) |
| Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | No credit |
| College of New Caledonia (CNC) | CNC CASS 188 (3) or CNC CASS 189 (3) |
| College of the Rockies (COTR) | No credit |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU LANC 2XXX (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
| University Canada West (UCW) | UCW HUMN 2XX (3) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | No credit |