DSSL - Bachelor of Arts in Deaf Studies

Admissions Requirements

• A high school diploma or GED

• Credentials earned outside of the US must be evaluated by an approved agency

• GPA of 2.0 or higher

• Official transcripts from all previously attended institutions

• Completed application with Carolina University

Graduation Requirements

• Shall have maintained a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0;

• Shall have passed all courses in the curriculum and made a C- or better in professional core courses;

• Shall have completed at least 24 of the final 30 hours with Carolina University.

Courses (120 Credit Hours)

General Education Core (36 Credit Hours)

 Professional Core (51 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language I (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language II (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language III (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language IV (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language V (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language VI (3 Credit Hours)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab I (1 Credit Hour)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab II (1 Credit Hour)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab III (1 Credit Hour)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab IV (1 Credit Hour)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab V (1 Credit Hour)

course - Deaf Culture and Conversational Lab VI (1 Credit Hour)

course - Religion and the Deaf Community (3 Credit Hours)

course - Disability Studies & the Deaf Community (3 Credit Hours)

course - International Sign & Visual Gestural Communication (3 Credit Hours)

course - Deaf Cultural Studies (3 Credit Hours)

course - American Sign Language Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)

course - Deaf Literature & Art (3 Credit Hours)

course - Deaf Studies Capstone (3 Credit Hours)

course - Final Practicum and Fieldwork (6 Credit Hours)

Choose one of the following tracks:

Sign Language Interpreting Track (33 Credit Hours)

course - Intro to Interpreting Profession (3 Credit Hours)

course - Contextual Settings: Frozen Text and Formal Interpreting (3 Credit Hours)

course - Contextual Settings: Medical, Mental Health, and Legal Interpreting (3 Credit Hours)

course - Interpreting English to American Sign Language (3 Credit Hours)

course - Contextual Settings: Educational Interpreting (3 Credit Hours)

course - Interpreting American Sign Language to English (3 Credit Hours)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Special Topics in Deaf Studies (1 Credit Hour)

course - Professional Seminar I: Ethical & Strategic Business Practices in Interpreting (3 Credit Hours)

course - Professional Seminar II: Ethics & Credentialing in Interpreting (3 Credit Hours)

course - Preliminary Practicum (3 Credit Hours)

Advocacy in Social Services Track (33 Credit Hours)

course - Society and Human Rights (3 Credit Hours)

course - Human Rights for People with Disabilities (3 Credit Hours)

course - Poverty Alleviation (3 Credit Hours)

course - Community Based Advocacy (3 Credit Hours)

course - Intercultural Competence and Communication (3 Credit Hours)

course - Transformational Development I (3 Credit Hours)

course - Transformational Development II (3 Credit Hours)

course - Short Term Community Development (3 Credit Hours)

course - Project Design (3 Credit Hours)

course - Project Monitoring and Evaluation (3 Credit Hours)

course - Grant Writing (3 Credit Hours)