What do we expect of our graduates?

Respect for Others

• Embrace diversity, equity and equality of opportunity in their community and in the profession 
• Reserve judgment; listen to the ideas and opinions of others in an effort to understand their worldview, experience and cultural perspective 

 Linguistic Readiness: English and ASL

•  Use both languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in formal and informal conversations on practical, social and professional topics 
• Discuss particular interests and special fields of competence with reasonable ease 
• Comprehend information presented at a normal rate of speech/signing 
• Demonstrate a broad vocabulary supporting language availability 
• Demonstrate good control of the grammar of both ASL and English such that errors rarely interfere with understanding and accents are unobtrusive 

Professional Presence 

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, time management, and reliability in day-to-day interactions 
• Demonstrate an emerging sense of self in the world, respectfully express opinions, manage professional interactions and comfortably withdraw from an interaction when not qualified or not comfortable working 
• Demonstrate readiness to be evidence-based practitioners 
• Deliver meaning-based consecutive and simultaneous interpretation and transliteration, incorporating appropriate linguistic and cultural mediation 
• Engage in healthy self care--personally and professionally 
• Make appropriate ethical decisions consistently and take professional action benefitting consumers and other practitioners 

Cultural Competencies 

• Articulate cultural norms, beliefs and values in the Deaf, Deaf-Blind and various majority communities 
• Manage power, position and professional interactions with sensitivity to historic oppression and marginalization of minority populations  
• Accept ones role as an invited ally and sojourner in Deaf community interactions and actively engage in promoting Deaf community goals while avoiding over-identification 

Life Long Learner 

• Demonstrate good study skills, time management, and effective use of resources in face-to-face and online courses 
• Participate in the advancement of the profession by mentoring others 
• Become actively involved in local, state, national and international organizations of signed language interpreting professionals 
• Engage in reflective and critical thinking, self assessment and the process of transformation 
• Regularly participate in professional development by learning new information, developing new skills, and aspiring to achieve the highest credential possible 
•  Become active consumers of professional literature