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  • ASL 439R: Special Topics in Interpreting

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3310 and University Advanced Standing. Provides students advanced study and skills development in interpreting between deaf (including deaf-blind) and hearing populations. Focuses on different topics as deemed appropriate (e.g., variety of academic, business, or social contexts). Provides extensive individual feedback to rapidly improve students' interpreting skills and understanding of the complex nature of the interpreting process. Repeatable for a maximum of 9 credits toward graduation.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
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  • ASL 4410: ASL Linguistics

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the linguistic study of ASL, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse structure. Emphasizes grammatical structures of ASL, including sign formation, pronominalization, identification and analysis of subjects and objects, classifiers, depicting verbs, pluralization, time concepts, and social interaction of language and culture within Deaf communities. Taught in ASL.
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  • ASL 4450: Deaf World Discourse

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Examines the discourse practices of the Deaf-World. Studies the ways that Deaf people use discursive forms to accomplish specific social aims. Explores the semiotic connections between discursive forms and various Deaf-World identities. Adopts an anthropological bias toward real-world discourse as primary data, and prepares students to do ethnographic fieldwork in the Deaf-World. Taught in ASL.
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  • ASL 4520: Deaf People and Disability Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the field of disability studies and shows where Deaf people fit within this field. Explores the historical, social, political, religious, philosophical, and cultural influences that construct and influence the categories of "disability" and "deafness." Examines the complex relation between Deaf and disability rights groups as well as how Deaf persons and persons with disabilities construct their own meanings and identities. Taught in ASL.
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  • ASL 4530: Deaf Peoples of the World

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3530 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the lives of Deaf people in various places around the world. Considers the extent to which the deaf experience is cross-cultural and to what extent it is unique to specific locations. Explores the lifestyles, educational opportunities, political climate and level of community development of deaf people across the globe. Seeks to illuminate areas of overlap and of difference among the worldviews of various communities.
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  • ASL 4550: Multicultural Deaf Lives

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on cultural issues, values, behaviors, identities and language of Deaf people from diverse backgrounds. Examines autobiographies, documentaries, films, videos, and academic literature to help understand the contributions and historical development of the emerging majority of the Deaf community that is underrepresented in the United States and the world. Taught in ASL.. May be delivered online.
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  • ASL 4560: Deaf People and the Law

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3050 and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the impact of laws and the legal system in the lives of people who are Deaf and the role such laws and the legal system play in the general understanding of Deafness in the United States. Explores in detail the rights of persons who are Deaf in a hearing world. Taught in ASL.
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  • ASL 4610: ASL Literature II

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 3610 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the dynamics of ASL literature and its traditions by studying various genres and ASL storytellers/poets. Covers stories with handshape constraints, poetry, and songs. Taught in ASL. May be delivered hybrid and/or online.
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  • ASL 4800: Recent Trends in Deaf Studies Theory WE

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ASL 3510 or 3520 or 3530) and University Advanced Standing. Explores recent trends in American Deaf culture, including cultural conflicts, tensions, and solutions. Provides a comprehensive study of theories used, including Deaf Gain, in Deaf Studies through analysis of current issues, writings and other media publications, and the expressions of Deaf people themselves. Taught in ASL.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
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  • ASL 4850: Advanced Understanding of Oppression and Audism

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ASL 385G and University Advanced Standing. Examines the various ways in which hearing people oppress Deaf people. Explores different avenues through which society has built a system of privilege based on an audiocentric center. Also examines how certain members of the Deaf community internalize audist constructions of deafness.
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