American Sign Language
Area of Study: American Sign Language
Degree/Certificate: Associate of Arts degree in American Sign Language
Academic School: Liberal Arts and Sciences
The Associate of Arts degree in American Sign Language is designed to prepare students to transfer to a four year program in American Sign Language/English Interpreting, or for students who plan to enter another field in which they would work with Deaf people on a regular basis, such as in the medical, educational, early childhood, vocational rehabilitation, and social work settings, or other community agencies.
This program has two areas of focus:
- The study of Deaf Culture and community and its social norms and rules of social interactions; and
- Principles of receptive and expressive ASL to include vocabulary, sign parameters, grammar structure and syntax, semantics and pragmatics while incorporating culturally appropriate body posture, hand gestures and facial expressions.