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American Sign Language

Area of Study: American Sign Language 
Degree/Certificate: Associate of Arts degree in American Sign Language

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The Associate of Arts degree in American Sign Language is designed to prepare students to transfer to a four year program in American Sign Language/English Interpreting, or for students who plan to enter another field in which they would work with Deaf people on a regular basis, such as in the medical, educational, early childhood, vocational rehabilitation, and social work settings, or other community agencies. 

This program has two areas of focus:

  • The study of Deaf Culture and community and its social norms and rules of social interactions; and
  • Principles of receptive and expressive ASL to include vocabulary, sign parameters, grammar structure and syntax, semantics and pragmatics while incorporating culturally appropriate body posture, hand gestures and facial expressions.  

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Radiah B. Blanton, Ed.D.
Interim Associate Dean, Liberal Arts
216-987-5229
Radiah.Blanton@tri-c.edu 

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