Certificate in Deaf History
Admissions suspended for the 2024-2025 academic year
The Graduate Certificate Program in Deaf History offers training in the growing field of deaf history. It provides graduate level courses in a broad range of related topics, including Deaf American, European, Media, and Disability history. Our courses promote history research methods and content, emphasizing how techniques of social and cultural history can be applied to the history of deaf people and communities around the world. Professionals who learn about the history of deaf people will bring new insights and scholarship to their teaching, sign language interpreting, researching, writing, counseling, and social work.
Admissions Procedures
Applicants for the Graduate Certificate in Deaf History must complete the application procedures including a statement of goals and meet the requirements for graduate study at Gallaudet University. Visit the Graduate Admissions website for more information and a checklist of application requirements.
| DEADLINE |
DATE |
| First Date for Consideration of Application: |
No set date |
| Last Date for Completed Application: |
April 18 |
Prerequisite Coursework
Sign Language (or experience using Sign Language)
Plan of study
Required Courses for Certificate
| HIS731 | History of the American Deaf Community | 3 |
Electives
| One U.S. history course from the following electives | 3 |
| One European history course from the following electives | 3 |
| Two additional electives | 6 |
| HIS732 | History of Mass Media and the Deaf Community | 3 |
| HIS733 | Topics in European Deaf History | 3 |
| HIS734 | Deaf People in Hitler's Europe | 3 |
| HIS735 | History of Disability in the United States | 3 |
| HIS755 | Deaf Women's History | 3 |
| HIS787 | Introduction To Historical Methods and Research | 3 |
| HIS793 | History Research Project I | 3 |
| HIS794 | History Research Project II | 3 |
| HIS795 | Special Topics | |
| HIS799 | Independent Study | 1-3 |