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Mission Statement
Gallaudet University's Department of ASL and Deaf Studies is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, challenging, and productive ASL and Deaf Studies curriculum anywhere in the world. Expert faculty will guide students to explore the complexities of Deaf communities and their signed languages through interdisciplinary approaches.
Gallaudet University is irrefutably the world's expert on American Sign Language and deaf studies. Having a rich history of being a leader in deaf education for over a hundred years, as well as being the premier educational institution that identified ASL as a true and independent language, it is clear that if you're interested in studying either ASL or the study of deaf people and deaf communities, Gallaudet University is the place.
The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies gives students an opportunity to acquire an understanding of the deaf community as a part of human diversity. The courses are designed to prepare students to spend their professional or social lives after graduation, in the deaf community or, to make further contributions in a chosen academic discipline.
The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies offers the following undergraduate programs:
The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies offers the following graduate programs:
The Assessment and Evaluation Unit (AEU) provides training, consultation and comprehensive measures of American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency and communicative competence. The data and information generated by the AEU benefits not only individual language learning, but is also essential to Gallaudet University, institutions and governing bodies nationwide. Information pertaining to ASL proficiency is provided to ensure individuals have requisite language skills for (but not limited to):
- Admission into academic programs
- Core curriculum, practicum, internship and graduation
- Professional opportunities and advancements
Deaf Studies MA Program Mission Statement
The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies offers the world's premiere graduate program in Deaf Studies. Our students become members of a vibrant learning community dedicated to the critique and production of knowledge relating to Deaf communities and their sign languages.
- The Cultural Studies Concentration challenges students to develop methods of inquiry, research and critique that explore the wide-ranging implications of Deaf ways-of-being.
- The Teaching Sign Language Concentration prepares ASL-fluent students to become the best-trained teachers of American Sign Language in the profession.
- The Deaf History Concentration trains students in historical methods and content, with an emphasis on the approaches and methods of social and cultural history as applied to deaf people and communities, both in the United States and abroad.
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