A performance of the student's signing skills is evaluated. Introduction to Deaf Education. Designed to give students a basic understanding of how to educate the deaf. Emphasis is on learning about their language and culture and how to use that knowledge in working with the deaf in the classroom setting. Students develop a working vocabulary of conceptually based signs.
Emphasis is on receptive as well as expressive abilities.
Students continue to develop an awareness of the history of sign language and deaf culture and explore various signing systems and their most common uses. A performance of the student's signing skills is evaluated. Students develop a working vocabulary of conceptually based signs. Students interact with members of the deaf community and participate in field trips. Students help educate the campus and surrounding communities about deaf people and their culture by presenting a performance at the end of the semester.