Graduate Certificate in Advanced American Sign Language
NOTE: Admission to this certificate is suspended for Academic Year 2025-26.
NOTE: Admission to this certificate is suspended for Academic Year 2025-26.
Certificate Requirements
The Advanced ASL Graduate Certificate is a 15 credit hour certificate that requires the following:
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
ASLD 705 | American Sign Language V (ASL V) | 3 |
ASLD 706 | American Sign Language VI (ASL VI) | 3 |
Select three electives: | 9 | |
Discourse Analysis of ASL | ||
Visual-Gestural Communication | ||
American Sign Language Literature | ||
Advanced American Sign Language Literature | ||
Topics in ASL Vocabulary and Discourse: _____ | ||
Total Hours | 15 |
At the completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Engage in content-specific ASL discourse (i.e., conversation, info text, presentation, expository discussion).
- Incorporate ASL linguistic structures (e.g., prosody, lexical items, fingerspelling, numerical system, depiction, constructed action and dialogue) in content-specific ASL discourse.