CERTIFICATE

The American Sign Language program is taken part-time over a two-year period. Graduates will be prepared and/or meet prerequisites for an Interpreter program, have sign language skills to work and communicate with deaf and hard of hearing people, meet World Language requirements at the high school and college/university level, and meet entrance requirements for undergraduate or graduate programs in ASL Studies.

PROGRAM FACT SHEET

Students completing this certificate will be able to:

Produce basic expressive/receptive sign language communicative skills
Demonstrate appropriate ASL linguistic and grammatical structure in signing
Demonstrate functional language aptitude in American Sign Language
Produce basic expressive/receptive signing of number systems – functional and abstract
Demonstrate basic fluency in receptive and expressive pragmatics and production of fingerspelling in ASL
Demonstrate basic knowledge of Deaf Culture

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Admissions Requirements

Minimum entrance assessment scores in reading. No math requirements.

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American Sign Language