Advanced ASL I
Pre-requisite: Competency Screening

Course Description:
Advanced ASL is an intensive hands on course that will foster your development of ASL fluency.  The Multimedia Interpreting Lab will be used as a tool to reinforce your process of expressing ASL in various registers, such as telling a narrative tale, giving a formal presentation, and engaging in dialogue.  This course also covers ASL linguistics, cultural rules, and the Deaf community and its history.

Advanced ASL II
Pre-requisite: Competency Screening

Course Description:
Advanced ASL II, a subsequent course to Advanced ASL I, is offered to reinforce students' continuing development in becoming fully fluent ASL users.  Student activities in the course include hands on experience in expressing narratives in ASL and engaging in a dialogue with various members within multicultural Deaf communities.  The course also covers more advanced rules of ASL linguistics, cultural rules associated with language use, and information about the Deaf community and its history.

Sociology of Deaf Communities
Pre-requisite: Competency Screening

Course Description:
In this course, students will explore the most common definitions of culture, the difference between culture and community, language acquisition and the relationship of language to culture.  Students will learn basic cultural concepts, including language, identity, values, norms, rules of social interaction, and traditions, within various Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities. Students will apply those concepts towards understanding their effect on the individual and will explore the current linguistic, political, social, philosophical and future directions within Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities.