This two-credit online synchronous course is designed for signers within the deaf/hard of hearing community working in settings that often require expression in advanced ASL discourse. This course is also open to American Sign Language users who wish to improve their technical abilities and skills. This course will explore and teach the three vital components of an effective ASL message: advanced non-manual signals, classifiers, and facial grammar. Students will get real-time practice with technical texts, and learn to create more effective and engaging translations, using videoconferencing technology and GoReact. This course is available for 3 RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) CEUs per credit.

Classes will take place Mondays through Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm EST. Saturday, 3/25/2023 will be from 9am to 12pm EDT.

Cross-listings: None

Prerequisite:  Permission of instructor; contact alisha.bronk@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $662

Instructor: Alisha Bronk

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 3 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for the  Academic Coursework Activity Report Form.

Course Materials: Purchase textbook(s) at eCampus.
Note: Payment must be received to finalize your course registration.

This course covers areas of vocabulary, semantics, grammar and organization of ASL and English. Students look at the linguistic aspects of both languages and compare the two. The class also covers word classes and sentence structure of both languages. To assist students in understanding the structure of both languages, discussion of how languages work is included.

Cross-listings: ASL 270 ASL and English: Comparative Analysis

Prerequisite:  Permission of instructor; contact don.miller@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Don Miller

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 3 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for the  Academic Coursework Activity Report Form.

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Upon completing the course and the exam, students will receive their caregiver certificate from the American Caregiver Association (ACA). The National Caregiver Certification Course (NCCC) from Gallaudet University, in collaboration with the American Caregiver Association (ACA), is intended to provide relevant and useful information about the most common responsibilities and duties of caregiving. This course is designed specifically for Deaf caregivers and those providing caregiving services to Deaf senior citizens.

Cross-listings: None

Prerequisite: None

Tuition: PST: $331

Instructor: N/A

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 1.5 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for Academic Coursework Activity Report Form

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This course provides insights into how community health workers increase wellness and improve access to health services through outreach activities to target populations. The course will train students to develop positive relationships with individuals and communities who need assistance and support in developing healthy behaviors, utilizing health resources, and gaining educational support. Emphasis is on health education, health promotion, and community outreach.

Cross-listings: None

Prerequisite: You must have already registered through the registration link at gu.live/chwtraining and received a confirmation email for your attendance to one of our training sessions. Contact deafhealth.training@gallaudet.edu if you have any questions.

Tuition: $0

Instructor: Erika Linstaedt and Emmanuel Perrodin-Njoku

Course Materials: N/A

This is an introductory survey to the field of Deaf Studies that highlights cutting edge concepts and theories at use in this field. The course will show how deaf people and sign languages are integral aspects of human diversity and how societies have responded to this diversity across different social, temporal, and cultural moments and movements.

Cross-listings: DST 101  Introduction to Deaf 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: Gene Mirus

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

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This is a survey of the various areas of study of deaf culture in the United States (history, folklore, anthropology and sociology).  The course begins with a macro-view at the term "culture" as it is seen through American eyes.  The definition will then be applied to the Deaf experience.  The course will end with an exploration of diversity within the global Deaf community.

Cross-listings: DST 204  Deaf Culture

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: Genie Gertz

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

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This course will introduce students to the field of Disability Studies. As an emerging interdisciplinary field of study, Disability Studies does not approach disability as a "medical condition, but as a human condition" (Charlton). Instead of studying the causes and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, we will explore the historical, social, political, religious, philosophical, and cultural influences that "construct" the category of "disability." We will also examine how persons with disabilities construct their own meanings and identities.

Cross-listings: DST 316  Disability 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: Meredith Burke

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

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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

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This course examines various forms of oppression by looking across different cultures and communities, and then examines possible parallels occurring within the deaf community.  Students are expected to develop a course project at the end of the semester.

Cross-listings: DST 311  Dynamics of Oppression

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: Kailyn Aaron-Lozano

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

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The dynamics of oral cultures and their traditions will be introduced in this course by studying the development of oral literature and literary artists in other cultures. Then using this as background, attempts will be made to study ASL literary tradition by looking at life histories, narratives, and poetry performances.

Cross-listings: DST 314 Oral Traditions in the Deaf Community

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: Benjamin Jarashow

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

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The focus of this course is research as a strategy of inquiry for improving practice and advancing our professions.  The general principles of qualitative, quantitative, and action research designs will be considered, along with related problems of measurement, statement and clarification of research problems, and basic statistical methods for describing data.  The goal is to produce professionals who are consumers of research in their fields who can apply research for the improvement of their school or work settings.

Cross-listings: EDU 720  Introduction to Research in Education

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; contact TBD

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: TBD

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

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This course introduces students to a variety of classroom management approaches and techniques, with an emphasis on working with students who have disabilities.  Students are provided with a foundation and background in behavior management and discipline in special education.  They will also consider theories and techniques that apply to individual students, classroom communities, and schoolwide communities.

Cross-listings: EDU 720  Introduction to Research in Education

Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator; contact christina.yuknis@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Catherine Krammer

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

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Students will focus on concepts and methods of assessment in special education with an emphasis on administering, scoring, interpreting, and reporting on standardized educational tests.  Emphasis will be placed on administration and interpretation of formal and informal diagnostic procedures, diagnostic reports, IEP development, and professional ethics.

Cross-listings: EDU 779  Assessment of Deaf Students with Disabilities

Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator; contact christina.yuknis@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Thangi Appanah

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

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This course describes the early development of ASL and English in young deaf and hard of hearing children and their impact on cognitive development.  The course examines how deaf and hard of hearing children go through developmental stages of acquiring and learning American Sign Language, which is similar to how hearing children go through developmental stages of acquiring a spoken language and how this development is tied to cognitive functions that are the precursors for further linguistic and academic growth (sign babbling, sign jargon, first words, ASL grammatical development and vocabulary expansion).  In addition, the course will address factors intrinsic to the bilingual child as well as to the environment that promote and/or prevent their linguistic and cognitive development.

Cross-listings: EDU 762  Early Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development of Bilingualism

Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator; contact oscar.ocuto@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Oscar Ocuto

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

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This course will address individualized planning for language and emergent literacy development that can be used as a guide for teaching and learning interventions to support a child's linguistic competence in American Sign Language (ASL) and English.  Candidates will apply various American Sign Language (ASL) and English assessment tools to explore ways of assessing diverse deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates' language and literacy acquisition and learning at home and at school.  Based on the results of these assessments, the Candidates will reflect on and identify the bilingual methodology approaches to meet the ASL and English language and literacy needs of candidates.  They will apply these strategies to home plan, lesson and unit planning, and within their settings..

Cross-listings: EDU 763  Assessment/Indiv. Planning in ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; contact TBD

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: TBD

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.

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This course reviews what it means to be an effective teacher and introduces the concepts of universal design for learning (UDL) as well as differentiation to meet the needs of deaf students who have disabilities.  Further studied is the concept of multiple literacies and access to content and opportunity for the development of literate and metacognitive thought.  The lesson plan format is augmented with the development of tiered lessons by addressing three levels of content, process and/or product expectations as determined by interest level, learning style, or readiness.  In addition, candidates will become familiar with a variety of instructional strategies for evidence-based practice in general and special education, the hierarchy of cognitive applications in Bloom's Taxonomy, Barbara Given's 5 natural learning systems, Robert Sternberg's Triarchic Intelligence model, as well as Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences.  Candidates are taught to encourage a) self regulation and other self-determination skills in their students, b) social interaction and true discussion as a method for developing metacognition and c) developing receptive and expressive learning pathways for academic discourse.

Cross-listings: EDU 777  Differentiating Instruction in the Content Areas

Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator; contact christina.yuknis@gallaudet.edu

Tuition: PST: $993

Instructor: Catherine Krammer

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 will prepare potential CDI and NIC test candidates to pass the Fundamentals of Interpreting Exam for CASLI. This is only one component of the CASLI Generalist Knowledge Exam, and PST 169 is recommended as preparation for the other portion, the Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness Exam.

The course will cover the ten content domains under this exam and techniques for handling the type of multiple choice test questions utilized in both ASL and English. Students will take several practice tests to gauge their readiness for the actual examination. Students are expected to have familiarity with interpreting best practices, Demand Control-Schema, history of the interpreting field, models of interpreting, and considerations pre-acceptance, pre-assignment, during assignment and post assignment including billing and logistics. (This list is not exhaustive.)  

This asynchronous course has no required meeting times, but does have a weekly submission schedule, and students can request virtual office hours as needed. This course has pass/fail grading. Students are welcome to contact the instructor, Katie Fitzpatrick, at katie.fitzpatrick@gallaudet.edu for any additional questions or concerns.

Prerequisite: See course description.

Tuition: $331

Instructor: Katie Fitzpatrick

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 1.5 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for the  Academic Coursework Activity Report Form.

Course Materials: Purchase your textbooks:   Master the NIC: Written Workbook

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

This course will prepare CASLI test candidates to take the Generalist Performance Exam for Hearing Interpreters which would result in RID’s National Interpreter Certification (NIC) credentials. Students will review the Job Task Analysis for hearing interpreters, and look for examples of these skills and abilities in their own work. Students will record themselves interpreting practice performance scenarios and reflect on and analyze their work. Diversity will be represented among Deaf and hearing consumers in terms of language use, age, gender, and cultural background. Students will also take a mock exam and reflect on the experience. Students need to be eligible to take the Generalist Performance Exam, which would mean that either they have already passed the Fundamentals on Interpreting written test and are eligible to take the Ethical Decision Making and Cultural Responsiveness Case Studies (“gap” test) at the same time with their performance exam, or they have already passed both portions of the Generalist Knowledge Exam. (PST 169 and PST 170 are recommended for more training on both portions of the Knowledge exam.)

Students should already have a comprehensive knowledge of both ASL and English, and experience in both interpreting and transliterating, both to and from each language. Practice videos will vary from 5 to 20 minutes in order to help practice stamina in interpretation, and to be in line with current source materials from CASLI. 

This asynchronous course has no required meeting times, but does have a weekly submission schedule, and students can request virtual office hours as needed. This course has pass/fail grading. Students are welcome to contact the instructor, Katie Fitzpatrick, at katie.fitzpatrick@gallaudet.edu for any additional questions or concerns.

Prerequisite: Passed both written portions of the Generalist Knowledge Exam or permission of the instructor; contact katie.fitzpatrick@gallaudet.edu.

Tuition: $331

Instructor: Katie Fitzpatrick

RID CMP: Gallaudet University is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 1.5 CEUs at the introductory content knowledge level. Please click here for the  Academic Coursework Activity Report Form.

Course Materials: Purchase your textbooks:   Master the NIC: Written Workbook

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