Summer Online Courses

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American Sign Language

• ASL Composition (3 credits)

  This course introduces students to critical, academic discourse in American Sign language. Students will be given opportunities to analyze and evaluate academic ASL and to compose logical arguments by synthesizing information from sources with their own critical perspectives. The course has been developed using a Multicultural Education philosophy that advocates the belief that students and their experiences should be placed at the center of the teaching and learning process, and that teaching and learning should occur in a context that addresses multiple ways of thinking.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 321-OL1	6/17/2024 – 7/19/2024	OPEN	$993

Accounting

• Financial Accounting II (3 credits)

  As the second part of the introduction to Financial Accounting, this course provides detailed coverage of long-term liabilities, long-lived assets, stockholder’s equity, investments, cash flows, and financial statement analysis. Special topics such as payroll accounting, accounting for partnership, and other related topics are also covered.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 472-OL1	6/17/2024 – 7/19/2024	OPEN	$993

• Managerial Accounting (3 credits)

  Management (or Managerial) Accounting comprises financial and non-financial information intended to meet internal users’ needs. It involves the development and interpretation of accounting information intended to assist management in the operation of the business. Topics include financial statement analysis and the use of accounting information for planning and control, performance evaluation, and decision-making. The course will cover cost behavior, job order costing, process costing, cost volume-profit relationship, relevant costing/benefits, budgeting, activity-based costing, cash flow and financial statement analysis. Computer lab is required.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 473-OL1	5/13/2024 – 6/14/2024	OPEN	$993

Caregiving and Community Health

• Deaf Centered National Caregiver Course (1 credit)

  Upon completing the course and the exam, students will receive their caregiver certificate from the American Caregiver Association (ACA). The National Caregiver Certification Course (NCCC) from Gallaudet University, in collaboration with the American Caregiver Association (ACA), is intended to provide relevant and useful information about the most common responsibilities and duties of caregiving. This course is designed specifically for Deaf caregivers and those providing caregiving services to Deaf senior citizens.

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 93-OL1	5/6/2024 – 5/31/2024	OPEN	$331
  PST 93-OL2	6/3/2024 – 6/28/2024	OPEN	$331
  PST 93-OL3	7/3/2024 – 7/31/2024	OPEN	$331
  PST 93-OL4	8/5/2024 – 8/30/2024	OPEN	$331

Deaf Studies

• Deaf Women’s Studies (3 credits)

  This course explores how the field of women’s studies came into being by way of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Issues faced by both hearing and deaf women will be investigated: career, educational opportunities, reproduction, and patriarchy, among others.

• Prerequisite: Completion of a Deaf Studies course or ASL 4 at Gallaudet in the last 12 months, or screening placement into ASL 5. Contact ASL Connect to schedule an ASL Screening. Permission of department; contact H-Dirksen Bauman
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 211-OL1	5/13/2024 – 6/21/2024	OPEN	$993

• Black Deaf Studies (3 credits)

  This course primarily examines Black Deaf people in America as well as those in the Caribbean Islands and Africa.  The course is organized to focus on the history, education, community and culture, language and psychosocial forces which influence their experience.   It will concentrate on the social, political and cultural development of a unique group of people that are part of both the general Deaf community and the Black community.  Readings will be from varied journalistic literature.

• Prerequisite: Completion of a Deaf Studies course or ASL 4 at Gallaudet in the last 12 months, or screening placement into ASL 5. Contact ASL Connect to schedule an ASL Screening. Permission of department; contact H-Dirksen Bauman
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 212-OL1	6/24/2024 – 8/2/2024	OPEN	$993

Education

• Introduction to Research in Education (3 credits)

  The focus of this course is research as a strategy of inquiry for improving practice and advancing our professions.  The general principles of qualitative, quantitative, and action research designs will be considered, along with related problems of measurement, statement and clarification of research problems, and basic statistical methods for describing data.  The goal is to produce professionals who are consumers of research in their fields who can apply research for the improvement of their school or work settings.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll,
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 729-OL1	5/13/2024 – 7/5/2024	OPEN	$993

• Applications in ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood Education for 0-5 (3 credits)

  This course is designed to prepare the candidates to apply an ASL/English Bilingual Framework in Early Childhood Education for deaf and hard of hearing children. This framework describes how the acquisition and learning of ASL and English (written and spoken) are being facilitated. This course reflects upon bilingual models and concepts and discusses the language planning process required to establish an environment that demonstrates value for both languages. Also, it focuses on meeting the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing children and families that it serves. Use of bilingual methodologies, assessment, effective strategies, and language teaching including signacy, oracy and literacy and critical pedagogy will be addressed.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PSG 675-OL1	5/13/2024 – 6/21/2024	OPEN	$993

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• Family Collaboration and Partnership: The ASL/English Bilingual Lens (3 credits)

  ASL and English Bilingualism at home and in school promotes healthy language development and communication, and creates positive self esteem among deaf/hard of hearing children from diverse backgrounds. This course/seminar is designed for professionals to acquire the knowledge and skills to work collaboratively with diverse families and other professionals to support the bilingual development and education of young deaf and hard of hearing children. Participants will discuss a working model of bilingual language acquisition (American Sign Language and English), approaches to providing support and encouragement to families, ways to promote positive communication with families , ways to promote positive communication with families, and the creation of culturally responsive and inclusively early childhood educational communities for all families. In addition, participants will apply a basic working knowledge of Part C and Part B of the IDEA regulations as members of an early childhood education team.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PSG 676-OL1	6/24/2024 – 8/2/2024	OPEN	$993

• Home-School Continuum: Collaboration with Families, Paraeducators, and Professionals (3 credits)

  In this course students will examine current trends and concerns which characterize the changing American family and draw implications for education, students with disabilities, and their families. They will examine family, community and school structures, patterns and relationships. Students will explore a variety of theories, concepts, principles and models utilized when implementing effective family, school, and community partnership, in addition to collaboration among IEP team members and when working with other professionals regarding students and families with special and diverse needs. Students will identify and discuss the uses and applications of community and school resources in supporting families and students with disabilities. They will also learn and simulate techniques for interacting with parents and examine collaboration strategies for interdisciplinary team efforts. In addition, students will focus on topics/challenges that face families with children with disabilities such as: sibling support, respite care, financial planning, transition planning, independent living and IEP meetings.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PSG 683-OL1	6/24/2024 – 8/2/2024	OPEN	$993

Linguistics

• Depiction, Iconicity, & Gesture (3 credits)

  Students are introduced to a descriptive framework with which to identify and analyze iconicity and depiction in ASL and other signed languages and spoken languages as well. The course focuses on depiction typology, examining the structure of role-shifting, constructed action and dialogue, classifier constructions/depicting verbs, aspectual constructions, abstract/metaphorical depictions, and other imagistic uses of space, including different types of gesture.

• Prerequisite: Contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
  

  Course	Dates	Status	Tuition
  PST 377-OL1	5/13/2024 – 7/5/2024	OPEN	$993