BA World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - American Sign Language Concentration - TUG
Gardner-Webb University's BA World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Program- American Sign Language Concentration and Interpreting Minor
A major in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures with Concentrations in American Sign Language (ASL) consists of courses in four (4) tiers:
- Foundation courses (9 hours)—an introduction into the relevant fields of your major (linguistics, intercultural communication, literature and film studies).
- Language, literature, and culture courses taught in the target language (21 hours)—these courses will be taken by students of a specific concentration.
- Comparative courses (9 hours)—these courses will be taken by students of all concentrations.
- Capstone (3 hours)—a senior seminar focusing on the exploration, research, development, and presentation of a major research and analytical essay on a subject appropriate to the major (fall semester, senior year).
American Sign Language students are required to take 2 internships, 3 credit hours each.
This degree plan is an example of student progression through the program. Academic departments reserve the right to alter the term in which a course is offered.
* Interpreting minor courses are shown with an asterisk
** SLIN 303 may be taken for major credit for non-Interpreting minors
*** Placement testing is offered by ASL faculty for ASL courses up through SGLG 201 upon entering program.
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Senior Year: Spring Semester (13-15 hours)
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| SGLG 401 |
3 |
Sociolinguistics of Sign Language |
| SGLG 496 |
3 |
Internship II |
| SLIN 403 |
3 |
Interpreting for Special Populations* |
SLIN 404
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1-3 |
Signs in Application
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| WLLC 480 |
3 |
Research from WLLC 480 will be presented during a spring conference |
As a student in this program, you will:
- Demonstrate the required level of competency in their chosen language of study.
- Distinguish language as a human phenomenon: how it is used in social contexts, how the mind processes language, how language (first and second) is acquired, how it is compared to non-human forms of communication.
- Describe culture as a context for communication by defining culture and identities within that culture, by understanding face-to-face and mediated communication, and by understanding culture’s influence on perspective.
- List cultural values: the dimensions of culture, dominant U.S. cultural patterns, comparative cultural patterns, culture and gender, contact between cultures.
- Discover the basic theoretical and cultural concepts underlying historical and contemporary approaches to literature and of the major differences between them.
- Generate and articulate personal responses to literary and critical texts, and to explain the premises and assumptions underlying such personal responses.