8 week course for NM Language Access Specialist certification.
Live lecture date TBD (to be determined)
- Manager: Laura Perez
- Manager: Freda Valdez
- Teacher: Laura Chavez
- Teacher: Ramon Gomez
New Mexico Center for Language Access
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This course presents an overview of the judicial process with emphasis on the New Mexico Court System, the practical, ethical, applied skills and abilities required in the three modes of interpreting. Students may want to obtain a copy of the Black’s Law Dictionary, the Interpreter’s Edge, and the Interpreter’s Companion. (These texts are not required but will be useful for the course of your career.)
- Manager: Laura Perez
- Manager: Freda Valdez
- Teacher: Laura Chavez
- Teacher: Ramon Gomez
Third course in the JSI curriculum, runs for eight weeks. Also contains the Ethics and Best Practices course materials. Live lecture date May 19.
- Manager: William Burrell (NMCLA)
- Manager: Laura Chavez
- Manager: Ramon Gomez
- Manager: Laura Perez
- Manager: Freda Valdez
Final online course of the JSI program. Runs for six weeks. Also contains the Criminal and Procedural Law Terminology course materials. Live lecture date TBD.
- Manager: William Burrell (NMCLA)
- Manager: Laura Chavez
- Manager: Ramon Gomez
- Manager: Laura Perez
- Manager: Freda Valdez
This course will provide a high-level overview of the criminal justice system in New Mexico focusing on the pretrial process. Topics such as legal foundations, professional standards, and the elements of a high-functioning pretrial agency will be introduced.
- Manager: Tara Blair
- Manager: Joseph Filerio
- Manager: Harlow Pinson44
- Manager: Bernice Ramos
- Teacher: Kelly Bradford
- Teacher: Gilbert Jaramillo
- Manager: Tara Blair
- Manager: Joseph Filerio
- Teacher: Kelly Bradford
- Teacher: Gilbert Jaramillo