American Sign Language Interpreting Certificate of Achievement

The American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreting Certificate is designed to prepare the student to be able to communicate with the Deaf Community in a variety of settings. Their sets of language skills and cultural knowledge allows them to transfer into several different programs such as theater, Health Science/medical, law and Education just to name a few. Proficiency in ASL is valuable to professionals in special education, health sciences, audiology, and speech therapy. Students will be prepared for occupations as agency interpreters, classroom interpreters, theatre interpreters, and assistants/aids to members of the Deaf community.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this program will be able to:

Demonstrate the skills needs to communicate with the Deaf community at a basic to native level.
Show in-depth knowledge about the Deaf community and their culture.
Demonstrate the skills needed to be able to interpret at a basic to intermediate level depending on setting.

REQUIRED COURSES:

Course ID	Title	Units
SL 1 *	American Sign Language I	4
SL 2 *	American Sign Language II	4
SL 3 *	American Sign Language III	4
SL 4 *	American Sign Language IV	4
SL 10	Deaf Culture and Its History	3
SL 121 *	ASL Interpreting I	3
SL 221 *	ASL Interpreting Lab I	1
SL 122 *	ASL Interpreting II	3
SL 222 *	ASL Interpreting Lab II	1
TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICATE:		27

*Course has a prerequisite, corequisite, limitation, or recommended preparation; see course description.

American Sign Language Interpreting Certificate of Achievement

Program Student Learning Outcomes

TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICATE:

27