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Sign language interpreting - a degree course for everyone with a heart for deaf and hearing-impaired people

Do you love languages of different origins and do you enjoy finding precise and accurate formulations? Do you enjoy communicating and are you passionate about the cultural community of deaf and hearing-impaired people? Do you already have some previous knowledge of Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) and would you like to refine and deepen it?

Then the Bachelor's degree course in sign language interpreting is certainly a very interesting option! During your studies, you will focus specifically on Swiss German Sign Language - DSGS for short - and learn how to interpret professionally between hearing and deaf or hearing-impaired people. You will learn how to apply the international code of conduct for interpreters in your work and will be aware of the linguistic and cognitive processes involved in interpreting.

Interpreting services are sought and needed wherever deaf and hearing people meet. After successfully completing your Bachelor's degree, you will interpret from sign language into Swiss German or High German or vice versa.

For further information on the Bachelor in Sign Language Interpreting FH, please visit the renowned Swiss education portal Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. There you can contact the individual schools directly, free of charge and without obligation using the inquiry form.

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Students can start the Bachelor's degree course in Sign Language Interpreting every three years, in September. The next possible start date is September 2018, then 2021, 2024 and so on.

Students on the Bachelor's degree course in Sign Language Interpreting learn to translate from High German or a Swiss German dialect into Swiss German Sign Language DSGS and, of course, vice versa.

Training in sign language interpreting is a course of study at the Intercantonal Universities of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education HfH in Zurich, which concludes with a federally recognized diploma as "Bachelor of Arts HfH in Sign Language Interpreting".

Since 2014, access to the Bachelor's degree program in Sign Language Interpreting has been made easier so that people without proven prior knowledge of sign language can also register for the program. Proof of at least 84 lessons of a DSGS preliminary course, which can be completed at the Signschool, the sign language school, is only required at the beginning of the course.

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