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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310, matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis, and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce consecutive interpretations. Focuses on developing basic cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret rehearsed and/or spontaneous texts. Teaches to incorporate semantic choice, register, and ethical behavioral decisions and understand how they impact interpretation. Develops sets of technical or field-specific signs and applyies these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab. Taught in ASL.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3350 and matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce simultaneous interpretations. Focuses on transitioning from consecutive interpreting to time-limited simultaneous interpreting. Develops cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret spontaneous texts. Teaches and incorporates more advanced semantic choices and negotiation techniques. Works with a variety of audience sizes and types. Teaches how ethics impact behavioral decisions and interpretations. Gives more consideration to developing sets of technical or field-specific signs and applying these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab. Taught in ASL.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3360 and matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate voice interpretations of ASL texts. Develops cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret spontaneous texts. Teaches and incorporates more advanced semantic choices and negotiation techniques.Works with a variety of audience sizes and types. Teaches how ethics impact behavioral decisions and interpretations. Gives more consideration to developing sets of technical or field-specific signs and applying these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3360, matriculation into the Interpreting Emphasis and University Advanced Standing. Introduces skills and processes required to produce conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate messages using ASL signs in an English word order. Develops cognitive, semantic, and dual tasking abilities required to interpret spontaneous texts. Teaches and incorporates more advanced semantic choices and negotiation techniques. Works with a variety of audience sizes and types. Teaches how ethics impact behavioral decisions and interpretations. Gives more consideration to developing sets of technical or field-specific signs and applying these to interpretative work. Includes one-hour per week lab.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310 and University Advanced Standing. Provides students advanced study and skills development in the business and profession of interpreting, decision making while interpreting between Deaf (including Deaf-blind) and hearing populations, and negotiation of the complex and growing field of interpreting. Students develop the understanding of the day to day demands of the work needed become truly professional interpreters. Provides extensive individual feedback.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 202G or equivalent knowledge and University Advanced Standing. Explores chronologically to 1817 the formation and treatment of the Deaf community and culture. Emphasizes the rise of deaf education in a European setting and on the links to American Deaf education. Examines perceptions of deaf people and language across this period. Taught in ASL.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 202G or equivalent and University Advanced Standing. Explores the evolution and treatment of the Deaf community and culture emphasizing activities in the United States chronologically from 1817 onward. Emphasizes the rise of oralism, the development of deaf residential schools, the emergence of American Deaf culture and the recognition of ASL as a true language. Taught in ASL..
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (ASL 202G or department approval) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the culture of the American Deaf people following the recognition of American Sign Language as a legitimate, naturally-occurring sign language. Examines constructions of Deaf people as a linguistic minority whose mores, beliefs, values and traditions emanate from a shared worldview that differs markedly from the view usually ascribed to them by others. Taught in ASL with a writing component.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the dynamics of ASL literature and its traditions by studying various genres and ASL storytellers. Uses the similarities and differences in the development of traditional oral literature in other cultures to ASL literature as a tool in discussions and critiques. Covers general narratives and the unique aspects and techniques of telling stories in sign language. Teaches how to critique and to produce ASL literature. Taught in ASL. May be delivered hybrid and/or online.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and (ASL 3510 or 3520 or 3530) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the role of visual arts in the Deaf-World with particular attention to Deaf/View Image Art (De'VIA), whose subject matter and style represent a Deaf worldview and cinema (including popular culture). Examines the historical and current contributions of Deaf artists, actors, and filmmakers. Takes as a reference other art movements stemming from oppression. Studies aims, motivations, and challenges portrayed in various art pieces and cinematic works. Taught in ASL.. May be delivered hybrid.