Faculty/Staff/PhD
Academic Faculty
Thomas, Samantha, MA, NIC
Senior Instructor
Phone: 813.974.6947
Office: PCD 4011
Samantha Thomas received two Bachelor degrees, in Art History and Sign Language Interpretation, from the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ in 2011. Upon graduation, she obtained her National Interpreter Certification from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and a score of 4.4 on the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment. She then continued her education at Columbia University and graduated with her Master’s degree in Teaching ASL as a Second Language in 2014. Samantha joined USF as a full-time instructor in the ITT/ASL program during 2015. Her areas of interest are in language/interpreting skill development outside the confines of a classroom, cognitive linguistics for language learners, and socratic methods of teaching. Outside of teaching she enjoys traveling internationally and is a sci-fi enthusiast.
| M.A. (Health and Behavior Studies) | Teachers College, Columbia University | 2014 |
| B.A. (Art History) | »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ | 2011 |
| B.A. (Communication Sciences and Disorders) | »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ | 2011 |
Teaching
- Transliteration
- Translation English/ASL
- Advanced ASL Discourse
- Specialized Terminology
- Intermediate ASL
- Beginning ASL
- Structure of ASL
- Interpreting 1
- Interpreting 2
- Interpreting 3
- Senior Seminar
- Deaf Culture