M State’s American Sign Language Studies program provides basic training in ASL and an understanding of Deaf CultureBody
While this 18-credit certificate program does not prepare students to be interpreters, it enables students to strengthen their ASL skills for communicating with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in:
- Education
- Social service agencies
- Law offices and the court system
- Medical fields
- Vocational rehabilitation
The program is offered on our Moorhead campus.
Here is what you’ll learn
- Recognize the difference between Deaf Culture and deafness as a medical condition
- Communicate more effectively with deaf and hard-of-hearing people in varied settings
- Demonstrate basic conversational skills and use appropriate ASL vocabulary, finger spelling and numbers
- Prepare to meet prerequisites for ASL interpreter programs
