American Sign Language

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Students who have previous signing experience are required to take a placement exam before enrolling in ASL courses.

Providing you are eligible to transfer coursework to Otterbein, American Sign Language courses beyond ASL 120 may be pursued by enrolling as a visiting student in the Interpreting/American Sign Language Education Program at nearby Columbus State Community College (CSCC). In many cases both the admission application process and the tuition are waived through a special cross registration program with which Otterbein and Columbus State are affiliated. To determine eligibility to cross register and to transfer CSCC courses to Otterbein, schedule an appointment with Otterbein’s Registrar.

Otterbein offers a minor field in Language and Culture of the Deaf Community. The minor will allow students to acquire the foundations of a visual and gestural language, gain significant knowledge of the Deaf community, and examine principles of visual and linguistic processing in psychology and culture.

Students who have questions about the individual courses, course substitutions, course waivers or the minor should contact Dr. Louis Rose in the History Department.

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