This beginning course is designed for students who wish to develop technical and grammatical knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL). This course is taught within the context of deaf culture, students will increase their ability to communicate in ASL. This course focuses on ASL structure and grammatical features as used by native signers. The goal is to take students with little or no knowledge of ASL and Deaf culture and provide them with the skills needed to communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community. This course is not open or available to students who have received credit in SL 101.

American Sign Language II takes students who have some knowledge of basic and beginning sign language to the point where they can function comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community. Since students will most likely continue their learning in the Deaf community, it is essential that they learn appropriate behaviors and show awareness of, and respect for Deaf culture. Deaf culture is taught throughout the curriculum using total immersion of American Sign Language. This course uses multimedia presentations, activities, and exercised practice using American Sign Language. This course is not open to students who have received credit in SL 102.

American Sign Language (ASL) III takes students who have knowledge of basic and intermediate sign language to the point where they can function comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf Community. Since students will most likely continue their learning in the Deaf community, it is essential that they learn appropriate behaviors and showing awareness of and respect for Deaf culture. Deaf culture is taught throughout the curriculum. This course uses multimedia presentations, activities, and exercises for advanced practice using American Sign Language. The course will provide students with cultural information and current linguistic research. This course is not open to students who have received credit in SL 201.

This fourth level American Sign Language (ASL) course continues the study of ASL with the context of Deaf culture. This course will emphasize the acquisition of advanced conversational and narrative skills in receptive, expressive to develop language fluency at the advanced level. This course provides the expanded review of ASL grammar and vocabulary necessary to acquire these skills. Students will also be introduced to the syntactical structure, grammatical patterns, and current linguistic research through lectures, homework assignments, and reading assignments.

This course is designed to provide students with the historical, theoretical, and practical knowledge of the ASL-English interpreting profession.

This course is designed to provide students with the cognitive skills needed to begin translating from English to ASL and ASL to English.

This course provides a broad, in-depth exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with topics on how culture is defined, how Deaf culture has evolved over the years, analysis of various segments of the Deaf community, Deaf cultural norms, Deaf art and literature and living as Deaf individuals.