Language and Culture of the Deaf Community Minor

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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.

Required (at least 28 total hrs):

ASL Courses (take all three)

The following three courses taken at Columbus State may be substituted for the ASL 100/110/120 requirement:

ITT 143 American Sign Language III* - 5 hrs
ITT 144 American Sign Language IV* - 5 hrs
ITT 145 American Sign Language V* - 5 hrs

Note

*Columbus State ASL levels III, IV, V will be considered as ASL elective credit at Otterbein.

Linguistics (choose one)

The following course taken at Columbus State may be used to fulfill the Linguistics requirement:

ITT 150 Linguistics of ASL - 3 hrs

Electives (choose two)

The following course taken at Columbus State may be used to help fulfill the above Elective requirement:

ITT 111 Introduction to the Deaf Community - 5 hrs

Residence Requirement:

Must be fulfilled by all transfer students (see The Academic Program .)

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