Undergraduate 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 Undergraduate Certificate is a 15 credit hour certificate that requires the following:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses: | ||
| ASLD 505 | American Sign Language V (ASL V) | 3 |
| ASLD 506 | American Sign Language VI (ASL VI) | 3 |
| Select three of the following electives or other departmentally approved courses: | 9 | |
| Discourse Analysis of ASL | ||
| Visual-Gestural Communication | ||
| American Sign Language Literature | ||
| Topics in ASL Vocabulary and Discourse: _____ | ||
| Advanced American Sign Language Literature | ||
| 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.