Sign Language Studies Department
Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan, USA

Workshops and Seminars

Since 1975 the Sign Language Studies Department at Madonna University has offered workshops and seminars in both the Fall and Winter semesters. SLS 4710, Selected Seminar Topics, is offered for both credit and non-credit. They are also available as Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Certificate Maintenance Program credits. (Madonna University is a RID/CMP approved program site.) For thirty-one years these workshops and seminars have addressed current trends and issues in areas specific to Sign language, interpreting and deafness. Topics addressed have included; models of interpretation; careers in Sign language; Deaf-Blind interpreting; theories of interpreting; ethics in interpreting; the role of media in Sign language; Deaf education; interpreting in the performing arts; the implications of legislation on the Deaf community; bilingualism and biculturalism in Deaf education; language and interpreting issues in the United Kingdom and Europe and a number of related subject areas. Nationally and internationally renowned speakers have addressed over three thousand students and community-based participants since 1975.