Academic Program Proposal

Date Proposal Activated	Institution and Proposal	Degree Awarded	Academic Program Name	Objection Deadline	MHEC Final Action	Final Decision Date
	Frederick Community College Proposal	Lower Division Certificate (L.D.C.)	Substantial Modification to the Existing American Sign Language Studies	6/27/2019	Approved	7/23/2019
Substantial Modification to the Existing American Sign Language Studies Program Description
The American Sign Language (ASL) Studies certificate is an existing program that is changing to focus specifically on the language portion of American Sign Language (ASL) only. The community, history, and culture related courses are being removed from the program. Additionally, the title will be changed to American Sign Language to better reflect the content of the revised certificate program. <br> <br>The program is intended for students whose career goals are oriented toward the fields of deaf studies, deaf education, and ASL interpreting. This program emphasizes the language acquisition of ASL signs, linguistics and sentence structure, as well as basic aspects of the deaf community, deaf history, and their culture.