Bachelor of Arts in ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures
Bachelor of Arts in ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD)
Degree Requirements (50 units):
LOWER DIVISION (22 units).
Take the following courses:
- ASLD 101: American Sign Language 1 (4)
- ASLD 102: American Sign Language 2 (4)
- LING/ANTH 170: Introduction to Linguistics (3)
- ASLD 124: American Deaf Cultures (3)
- ASLD 201: American Sign Language 3 (4)
- ASLD 202: American Sign Language 4 (4)
UPPER DIVISION (28 units).
Take the following courses:
- LING 325: Modern English Grammar (3)
- ASLD 305: American Sign Language 5 (4)
- ASLD 306: American Sign Language Linguistics (3)
- ASLD 324: Critical Deaf & Disability Studies (3)* new course
- ASLD 424: Global Deaf Culture and Languages (3)
- LING/ANTH 413: Language and Culture (3)
Take 1 course out of the following:
- LING 421: Syntax (3)
- LING 433: Survey and Discourse Analysis (3)
- LING 423: Semantics (3)
Take 3 Courses out of the following:
- LING 301: Introduction to Research Methods (3)
- LING 329: Language Acquisition (3)
- LING 379: Sociolinguistics (3)
- LING 401: Corpus Linguistics
- LING 420: Phonology (3)
- LING 421: Syntax (3)
- LING 423: Semantics (3)
- LING 426: History of English (3)
- LING 433: Survey of Discourse Analysis (3)
- LING 438: Psycholinguistics (3)
- LING 460: TESOL composition (3)
- LING 470/ANTH 475: Language and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)
- LING 472: Language and Social Justice (writing intensive capstone)
Admission Requirements:
ASLD 101 (American Sign Language 1), and ASLD 102 (American Sign Language 2) with a grade of C or better
Minors you may want to add if you are an ASLD major:
- Linguistics- TESOL
- Spanish
- Translation- under RGRLL