This course will provide students opportunity to develop skills and knowledge of key practices such as listening skills, memory retention and oral translation. Students will study and apply relevant contextual and pragmatic knowledge to particular assignments typical of a professional interpreter. The course also provides an introduction to types of interpreting (whispering, consecutive and sight translation) and specific skills of interpreting (turn taking, note-taking, paraphrasing, identifying intonation and employing cohesion). Students will also apply cross cultural communicative skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal contexts, and develop discourse management skills to handle different communication settings.