Is the University of Rochester ASL Program an Interpreter Training program?
We offer a full 4-year liberal arts degree, with classes in ASL as a language, in the literature and culture of the American Deaf community, in the linguistics and psycholinguistics of signed and spoken languages, and classes in teaching ASL as a second language. In addition, we offer instruction in a second sign language, Japanese Sign Language. Our program is not, however, an interpreter training program, although a B.A. in ASL provides an excellent background for students who plan to obtain a master’s degree or other form of certification in interpreting.
