American Sign Language Minor (18 hours)

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The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers a minor in American Sign Language (ASL). This program is for students in various disciplines across campus who are interested in learning and using ASL. The minor is intended to teach students the fundamentals of ASL as well as enrich students’ knowledge of the Deaf and Deaf Culture.

A minimum of 18 credit hours is required. The minor requires 9 credit hours of introductory and intermediate ASL (AUSP 1010, 1020, and 2010), as well as 9 hours at the upper division level (3000 and 4000 level) with choices of courses focusing on fingerspelling; deaf culture and history; ASL for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators; and psychological, sociological and educational perspectives of deafness.

Note: AUSP 2020 Inter Amer Sign Language II is available, but not required for the minor.

Core Requirements for ASL (9 hours)

Required Courses:

AUSP 1010 - Intro Amer Sign Lang l Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 1020 - Intro Amer Sign Language ll Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 2010 - Inter Amer Sign Language l Credit Hours: (3)

Upper Division Courses (9 hours)

Choose any three of the following courses:

AUSP 3010 - Advanced American Sign Language Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 3020 - Advanced Fingerspelling Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4106 - Introduction to Audiology Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4205 - ASL for Speech, Audio, & Educ Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4206 - Deaf Culture and Deaf History Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4207 - Psychological, Sociological, and Educational Perspectives of Deafness Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4208 - Introduction to Interpreting ASL Credit Hours: (3)
AUSP 4209 - Linguistics in American Sign Language Credit Hours: (3)