24 courses with the subject ASL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.
Effective Date 03/03/2017 Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 New Course offering in the subject of American Sign Language.
Effective Date 03/03/2017 Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics.
Effective Date 03/03/2017 Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics.
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Examines the roles of deaf women inside and outside of the signing Deaf community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, considers such topics as language and cultural barriers, violence against women, sexuality, race, class, education, and work. Investigates disparities between deaf and hearing women and the choices available to d/Deaf women, individually and collectively, in contemporary culture. No prior knowledge of ASL is required.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 This course will explore the Deaf community, discrimination, and laws affecting Deaf people in the United States. We will consider the experiences of Deaf people before and after such measures as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 to gain insight into how the law affects social perceptions and people’s everyday lives. No prior knowledge of ASL or Deaf culture is required for this course.
Effective Date 07/09/2013 New course offering the subject of American Sign Language.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Continues language and cultural instruction with emphasis on everyday conversation. Topics include common idioms and slang, explaining rules, discussing finances and major decisions, and storytelling techniques such as role-shifting and narrative structure. Students will be required to interact with deaf signers.
Effective Date 12/14/2017 The ASL language course related to residency in the Shea Language House at UVA for students who have applied to and been accepted into the ASL Language Pod in the Shea House dormitory. Student residents will further develop their ASL language skills and understanding of Deaf culture through conversations among their peers in their dorm setting, weekly dinner meetings, and other arranged activities.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 In many ways, this course is intended to serve as a way to continue to develop and refine ASL language awareness and effectiveness. It is both a continuation of ASL 1010 through 2020, and (as its title implies) emphasizes on the development and inclusion of extended and/or complex narratives and their elements with a focus on improving communication fluency through the incorporation and refinement of ASL depiction. This is course also serves as an elective for the Minor in ASL and Deaf Culture.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 What do the Peace Corps, deaf tour guides, NGOs, and missionaries share? How have U.S. ideas shaped deaf education and sign languages in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Indonesia? Why do deaf people seek each other out when traveling? This course analyzes the movement of capital, commodities, sign languages, and ideologies through migration, tourism, and diaspora, exploring contemporary deaf identities, communities, and experiences worldwide.
Effective Date 05/01/2012 This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community of Deaf people who share a distinct sign language and culture. We will read both primary texts from specific periods and secondary sources. We will also view a few historical films.
Effective Date 04/03/2018 In Deaf culture, “coda” means the hearing child or children of Deaf adults. This course will examine the body of coda literature or “coda stories” (written memoir, movies, social media, etc.) and examine the issues and commonalities among them. Through discussion, writing, and other activities we’ll discover more about ourselves, cultures, and the human experience.
Effective Date 03/23/2018 This course will study the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries in addressing the question: What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? Our approach will be contrapuntal, juxtaposing canonical texts and mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists.
Effective Date 08/01/2018 This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled.
Effective Date 11/06/2017 Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL’s status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 The majority of deaf people live in the so-called “Global South”; regions like South America, Asia, Africa and India, which have experienced colonialism or and/or have limited access to resources and power. However, historically deaf studies focused on the experiences of deaf people in the “Global North.” The course will consider how deaf people’s experiences in the Global South have been shaped by local and international contexts, and re-imagine deaf studies from these perspectives.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 New course in the subject of American Sign Language.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 Explores cultural influences on identity development, family systems, linguistics, engagement with educational and community agencies, and resilience within the Deaf community. The interaction of culture, identity and language will be highlighted and applied to future trends for groups within the Deaf community, such as children of Deaf adults, GLTB community members, ethnic minority groups, women, and persons with disabilities.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Students will collaborate fully in American Sign Language to develop a class project based upon that of students in course offerings from previous semesters. Students will follow the Scientific Method and negotiate all aspects of the project. Students will naturally develop ASL presentation skills, increase range of sign vocabulary, and increase understanding and fluency in ASL and Deaf culture. This course is an elective for the Minor in ASL and Deaf Culture.
Effective Date 04/03/2013 New course in the subject of American Sign Language.
Effective Date 01/01/2020 Examines such topics as American deaf history; ASL linguistics; deaf education; cultural versus pathological views of deaf people; controversies over efforts to eliminate sign language and cure deafness; ASL poetry and storytelling; deafness in mainstream literature, film, and drama; deafness and other minority identities; and the international deaf community.
Effective Date 01/26/2015 Independent Study in American Sign Language.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
