American Sign Language
The online American Sign Language (ASL) courses and certificate provides learners with skillsets in effective communication, storytelling, and understanding of the Deaf Community, emphasizing both linguistic and cultural aspects.
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Overview
Learn About The Online American Sign Language Programs
Purdue University is dedicated to providing comprehensive and interactive curricula for students interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language in five areas: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Community. Using direct instruction and immersion in ASL. The online program specifically offers tools for mastering the grammar of ASL to both express and understand the language.
Program Specifics
Learn more about Purdue University’s American Sign Language Certificate
Purdue’s online ASL Certificate courses offer a comprehensive introduction to American Sign Language. Students gain grammar, cultural knowledge, and proficiency in ASL. The program enables effective communication, storytelling, and understanding of the Deaf Community, emphasizing both linguistic and cultural aspects.
- Display conversational narrative skill proficiency with ASL vocabulary, fingerspelling, and number signs.
- Apply ASL grammatical rules, non-manual signals, sentence features, dialogues, and storytelling.
- Understand complex interactions using expanded ASL signs and sentence structures.
- Demonstrate advanced conversational and narrative skills with both concrete and abstract concepts.
- Utilize appropriate ASL grammatical features, nonmanual signals, intensity, and characterizations in dialogues and storytelling.
- Gain understanding and respect for Deaf culture, by applying ASL skills and understanding more of the deaf community.
- Courses: American Sign Language 1, American Sign Language 2 and American Deaf Community.
- Individual courses:
- American Sign Language 1 – $500
- American Sign Language 2 – $500
- American Deaf Community – $350
- Certificates:
- Two Course Certificate – $900
- Full Certificate – $1000
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