Cultural Competence 1: Assess Your Unconscious Bias as an Interpreter

Course length:  1.5 hours  

Course access period: 60 days from purchase date

Once purchased, course access cannot be paused.

Course completion requirements: Pass one exit test (score of 70% or above).

Certificate: Downloadable certificate available immediately upon passing the exit test.

CEUs:

• Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI): 1.5 CCHI CE hours
• Maryland Court Interpreter Program: 1.5 CE credits
• Ontario Council on Community Interpreting: 1.5 OCCI PDUs

Learning objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Use research-based strategies to assess your unconscious bias while interpreting.
• Assess the potential consequences of intervening during an interpreted session (and why your decision matters).

What you will get:

• Your video instructor: Madap Sharma, MA
• 9 interactive exercises, including two self-assessment protocols and four role plays (two in 9 language pairs and two in English only)
• A clear and simple introduction to a complex topic
• An implicit bias “toolbox,” including access to a film about unconscious bias and an introduction to the world’s the most famous implicit bias tests (Harvard’s Project Implicit)
• Strategies to assess how unconscious bias affects interpreters and other participants in the encounter
• Sections from The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook and The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting
• Course completion certificate

 How this lesson will improve your practice:

You will:

• Have a deeper understanding of the way all humans are biased, how bias isn’t “bad” but how bias can cause problems for the interpreted session.
• See how you, as a community interpreter, can avoid causing harm with your own unconscious bias.
• Be better able to detect or prevent harmful situations caused by unconscious bias.