Coursework

ASL 1020

American Sign Language I - This course is an introductory course to receptive and expressive ASL. Focuses on grammatical skills as well as a foundational understanding and competency in basic ASL.

ASL 2010

American Sign Language II - This course focuses ASL grammatical structures, the importance of NMM, and helps students further develop their receptive and expressive ASL skills.

ASL 2020

American Sign Language II - This course gives students a good transition from rudimentary American Sign Language into the more advanced skillset needed in 3000+ courses. Focus on enhancing and fine tuning expressive and receptive skills while promoting further development in proper ASL linguistic and grammatical structure.

ASL 3010

Advanced ASL I - This course delved deeper into the linguistic structures of ASL, teaching students how to apply different linguistic elements into further developing and improving their receptive and expressive skills. Especially focused on how to properly produce sentences in ASL, following ASL grammatical rules and structures.

ASL 3020

Advanced ASL II - Focuses on American Sign Language fluency, vocabulary development, grammatical structures of American Sign Language, use of classifiers, conversational skills, translating written texts into American Sign Language, and vice versa. Emphasis is on making formal presentations in American Sign Language.

ASL 3000

Fingerspelling and Numbers - This course provided students with a deeper understanding of when fingerspelling is appropriate, the different registers of fingerspelling, and the different ways that numbers can be used in ASL to show statistics, age, time, etc. Develops both receptive and expressive fingerspelling and numbers skills.

ASL 3150

Survey of Interpreting - This course provides students with instruction relevant to educational and general interpreting. It covers the Code of Ethics and class discussions on moral/ethical dilemmas and how to professionally handle them within the C.o.E.

ASL 3200 & 3250

ASL English Interpreting in Elementary School & High School I - These courses provide key interpreting skills relevant to Educational Interpreting. They develop good habits, sharpen skills such as discourse mapping, as well as provide an opportunity to take the EIPA.

ASL 3490

Advanced Application in American Sign Language - Study of select signs in American Sign Language emphasizing culturally appropriate signs in education, psychology/mental health, legal/legislation, health/medicine, religion, drugs/alcohol, and technology.

ASL 4100

Advanced Deaf History - Explores the history of the Deaf community and the ways the majority culture has perceived Deaf people, their community and education. The includes the nineteenth-century controversy over communication methods, cultural reasons, and the rise of important themes in Deaf history.

ASL 4980

Independent Study - Supervised research and study on topics related to the origins and growth of American Sign Language and the Deaf Community in the United States (1800-present).

ASL 4050

Advanced Deaf Culture - This course explores various identities such as gendered, disabled, sexual, raced identities, and d/Deaf and their complex intersections as key sites for DeafCrit theory and political action. Topics such as DeafCrit theory, intersectionality, Deaf epistemology, dysconscious audism, and Deaf Gain were discussed and analyzed.