This course will introduce students to multicultural perspectives of the Deaf Community.  It will include theoretical frameworks, socialization processes, and identity development theories that impact our individual and collective identities.  While its primary focus is on the American Deaf Community, the deaf immigrant experience will also be included and examined. 

Cross-listings: DST 410  Multicultural Lives: Ethnographic Studies

Prerequisite: Completion of a Deaf Studies course or ASL 4 at Gallaudet in the last 12 months, or screening placement into ASL 5. Contact aslconnect.education@gallaudet.edu to schedule an ASL Screening. Permission of department; contact h-dirksen.bauman@gallaudet.edu.

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Summer Crider

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 4.5 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for Academic Coursework Activity Report Form

Course Materials: Purchase textbook(s) at eCampus.

Note: Payment must be received to finalize your course registration.

This course provides students with a survey of the concept of linguistic human rights. First included as an international right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, linguistic human rights has become an important concept for identifying and furthering the rights of peoples based on languages. Students will examine the historical and theoretical underpinnings to this concept as it emerged within human rights discourse and tools which have been developed from this concept to further human rights aspirations based on language. The course will look at how this concept has been and continues to be used with deaf communities.

Cross-listings: DST 742  Linguistic Human Rights and Deaf Communities

Prerequisite: Completion of a Deaf Studies course or ASL 4 at Gallaudet in the last 12 months, or screening placement into ASL 5. Contact aslconnect.education@gallaudet.edu to schedule an ASL Screening. Permission of department; contact h-dirksen.bauman@gallaudet.edu.

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Joseph Murray

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 4.5 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for Academic Coursework Activity Report Form

Course Materials: Purchase textbook(s) at eCampus.

Note: Payment must be received to finalize your course registration.