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  "college": "san-diego-mesa-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "American Sign Language/Interpreting",
  "id": "american-sign-language-studies-certificate-of-achievement",
  "name": "American Sign Language Studies",
  "award": "Certificate of Achievement",
  "department": "american-sign-language-interpreting",
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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nThe American Sign Language Studies and the American Sign Language - English Interpretation programs offer students a variety of certificate and degree options designed to prepare them for transfer to four-year institutions as well as for deafness-related careers in the public and private sectors.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the American Sign Language Studies Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Accurately interpret between ASL and English in a variety of settings: face-to-face, small group settings, monologue and/or large group settings.\n2.  Develop receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language and Fingerspelling.\n3.  Apply professional standards, practices, and ethics, not limited to the tenets of the Code of Professional Conduct, to their work.\n4.  Develop knowledge and awareness of the differences between the Deaf Culture/deaf community and the hearing community"
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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          "text": "COURSES REQUIRED FOR THE MAJOR:",
          "units": "32"
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 120",
          "title": "American Sign Language Level I",
          "units": "5",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 121",
          "title": "American Sign Language Level II",
          "units": "5",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 150",
          "title": "Introduction to Deaf Culture",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 155",
          "title": "Navigating Deaf Perspectives",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 214",
          "title": "American Sign Language Fingerspelled Signs",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 220",
          "title": "American Sign Language Level III",
          "units": "5",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 221",
          "title": "American Sign Language Level IV",
          "units": "5",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AMSL 225",
          "title": "Introduction to Linguistics of American Sign Language",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        }
      ]
    }
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