Major Requirements

Summary of Requirements

Required pre-major courses 6 hours

DST 101 Introduction to Deaf Studies (3)
LIN 263 Introduction to the Structure of American Sign Language (3)

Required major courses 27 hours

ASL 301 ASL and English: Comparative Analysis (3)
ASL 303 Classifiers: Theory and Applications (3)
ASL 304 Fingerspelling and ASL Numbers: Theory and Practice (3)
ASL 305 Non-manual Grammatical Signals in ASL (3)
ASL 314 ASL Literature (3)
ASL 405 Discourse Features in ASL (3)
ASL 421 Introduction to ASL Instruction (3)
ASL 480 ASL Registers: Speaking to the Public (3)
ASL 494 Senior Seminar (3)

Required related courses 3 hours

DST 305 Deaf Culture (3) 

Elective courses 6 hours

Choose two courses:
ASL 403 Communication in Gestures (3)
ASL 495 Special Topics (3)
ASL 499 Independent Study (3)
DST 495 Special Topics (3)

Courses encouraged, but not required

DST 312 Black Deaf People's Studies (3)
DST315/ART 215 Introduction to Deaf View/Image Art (3)
DST 402 Deaf Women's Studies (3)
HIS 331 History of the American Deaf Community (3)