B.A. in Deaf Studies

Summary of Requirements

	2025-2026
Core Curriculum	43
Pre-Major Courses	15
Major and Related Courses	48-51
Free Elective Courses	11-14
TOTAL	120

Required pre-major courses 9 credits

DST 101/PST 200	Introduction to Deaf Studies	3
LIN 101/PST 374	Sign Language & Sign Systems	3
SOC 101	Introduction to Sociology	3

Required Deaf Studies major courses 36 credits

DST 203/PST 201	Introduction to Cultural Studies	3
DST 204/PST 205	Deaf Culture	3
DST 311/PST 203	Dynamics of Oppression	3
DST 314/PST 204	Oral Traditions in the Deaf Community	3
DST 316/PST 210	Disability Studies	3
DST 320	Internship I	3
DST 401/PST 212	Black Deaf People's Studies	3
DST 402/PST 211	Deaf Women's Studies	3
DST 497	Deaf Studies Senior Thesis I	3
DST 498	Deaf Studies Senior Thesis II	3
HIS 331/PST 207	History of the American Deaf Community	3
LIN 263/PST 361	Introduction to the Structure of American Sign Language	3

Required related courses 9 credits

Choose three courses:

ASL 270/PST 322	ASL and English: Comparative Analysis	3
ASL 290	Visual Language Resource Development	3
ASL 314	American Sign Language Literature: Narratives	3
ASL 380	ASL Elocution: Applications	3
ASL 390	Discourse Features in ASL	3
COM 430	Gender and Communication	3
COM 440	Intercultural Communication	3
COM 450	Political Communication	3
DST 210	Gallaudet Alumni Relations	3
DST 315	Introduction to Deaf View/Image Art	3
DST 410/PST 206	Multicultural Deaf Lives (Topic to be specified)	3
DST 495	Special Topics	1-5
DST 595U	Special Topics	1-3
EDU 250	Introduction to Education and Teaching	3
GOV 360	Public Policy	3
GOV 370	Human Rights	3
HIS 287	Research Methods in History	3
HIS 322	Cultural Geography	3
HIS 332	History of Mass Media and the Deaf Community	3
HIS 333	History of Disability in the U.S.	3
HIS 340	Nineteenth Century American Deaf History	3
HIS 378	U.S. Women's History	3
HIS 380	The History of Sexuality	3
HIS 381	Gay & Lesbian History	3
HIS 400	Deaf Women's History	3
PHI 450	Bioethics and the Deaf Community	3
PSY 270	Psychology and Deaf People	3
PSY 448	Psycholinguistics	3
SOC 211	Race and Ethnic Relations	3
SOC 225	Sociology of Deafness and Deaf People	3
SOC 250	Gender and Society	3
SOC 268	Cultural Anthropology	3
SOC 313	Work and Globalization	3
SOC 318	Medical Sociology	3
SOC 436	Social Inequality: Race, Class and Gender	3
SWK 318	Human Diversity	3

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate knowledge of the multiplicity of deaf people's lives within the United States and internationally.

 

Engage in critical inquiry into changing ideological construction of deaf people, sign language, and normalcy from cultural, geographical, sociological and human rights perspectives.

 

Develop research skills to produce and to present effective written and signed research projects using various media in academic discourse related to the interdisciplinary field of Deaf Studies, incorporating principles of academic integrity.

 

Subject:

Deaf Studies