Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates of American Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Cultures program should be able to demonstrate the following:
For the B.A. in ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures:
- Acquire and combine their general education skills with a rich body of relevant linguistic and cultural analytic knowledge and information to solve complex global and local linguistic and cultural problems and challenges;
- Apply and integrate the methods of acquiring a new language and culture, and linguistic scientific methods of dissecting languages and their cultural influences in the field or in archival settings through critical analysis, problem solving, and collaborative communication techniques,
- Synthesize information on signed and spoken languages and their cultural influences to possibly create something new from their analyses and integration of information,
- Evaluate current research on spoken and signed languages with cultural influences, and judge and assess the quality of that body of knowledge, and the work itself
For the B.A. in ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures: Option in Interpreting:
- Acquire and combine their general education skills with a rich body of relevant linguistic and cultural analytic knowledge and information to solve complex global and local linguistic and cultural problems and challenges;
- Apply and integrate the methods of acquiring a new language and culture, and linguistic scientific methods of dissecting languages and their cultural influences in the field or in archival settings through critical analysis, problem solving, and collaborative communication techniques,
- Apply and integrate methods of translating between English and ASL;
- Synthesize information on signed and spoken languages and their cultural influences to possibly create something new from their analyses and integration of information,
- Synthesize information in English and ASL and consecutively interpret between them;
- Evaluate all of the relevant factors in an interpreting situation and simultaneously interpret between ASL and English,
- Evaluate current research on spoken and signed languages with cultural influences, and to judge and assess the quality of that body of knowledge, and the work itself.
