Major Requirements

A new general studies curriculum was approved by the Gallaudet faculty on June 25, 2007. Students entering in Fall 2007 follow the new curriculum. An introduction to the new General Studies Curriculum is online, presented in ASL and English.

Summary of Requirements

The requirements below are for students who enter during or after Fall 2007. Students who entered in previous semesters will find their requirements in the archived catalogs.

Requirements to Continue in the Major

To continue in the program, an ASL major must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 in major and related courses and can have no more than one D in his or her major courses.

2007-2008 Course Requirements

Required pre-major courses 6 hours

• DST 101 Introduction to Deaf Studies (3)
• LIN 263 Introduction to the Structure of American Sign Language (3)

Required major courses 27 hours

• ASL 301 ASL and English: Comparative Analysis (3)
• ASL 303 Classifiers: Theory and Applications (3)
• ASL 304 Fingerspelling and ASL Numbers: Theory and Practice (3)
• ASL 305 Non-manual Grammatical Signals in ASL (3)
• ASL 314 ASL Literature (3)
• ASL 405 Discourse Features in ASL (3)
• ASL 421 Introduction to ASL Instruction (3)
• ASL 480 ASL Registers: Speaking to the Public (3)
• ASL 494 Senior Seminar (3)

Required related courses 3 hours

• DST 305 Deaf Culture (3)

Elective courses 6 hours

Choose two courses:

• ASL 403 Communication in Gestures (3)
• ASL 495 Special Topics (3)
• ASL 499 Independent Study (3)
• DST 495 Special Topics (3)

Courses encouraged, but not required

• DST 312 Black Deaf People's Studies (3)
• DST 313 Deaf Women's Studies (3)
• DST/ART 315 Introduction to Deaf View/Image Art (3)
• HIS 331 History of the American Deaf Community (3)