American Sign Language (A.A.)
Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/fl/asl.htm
ASSOCIATE OF ART
The American Sign Language (ASL) Program at Cerritos College is an interdisciplinary program that fosters an awareness of the Deaf community and cultural awareness. The program consists of study goals that take students with little or no knowledge of ASL and Deaf Culture and provides them with the skills needed to communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
- To provide students with the skills needed to communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community.
- Students demonstrate knowledge and awareness of Deaf arts and literature. In addition, they demonstrate awareness of Deaf arts and literature.
- Students demonstrate knowledge and engaging critical inquiry relating to topics in Deaf Culture and sign languages.
- Demonstrate advance knowledge of how to transliterate and interpret between spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL).
- Students use American Sign Language vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and morphology to express and receive information when signing stories.
- Students demonstrate knowledge of historical, social, cultural and ideological constructions of deaf people and their communities on national and global scales.
Program Requirements
| Code Number | Course Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| ASL 110 | American Sign Language I | 4.0 |
| ASL 111 | American Sign Language II | 4.0 |
| ASL 210 | American Sign Language III | 4.0 |
| ASL 211 | American Sign Language IV | 4.0 |
| ASL 220 | Deaf Culture | 3.0 |
| List A (Select one course for 3 units) | 3.0 | |
| Beginning Interpreting and Ethics 1 | ||
or ASL 216 | Beginning Interpreting and Ethics 2 | |
| Total Units | 22 | |
ASSOCIATE OF ART REQUIREMENTS
Meet the requirements above and complete General Education courses to achieve a minimum of 60 units.