EDU-701 Deaf Learners and Education in Bilingual Communities

Course Overview

This course introduces the fundamentals of general, special, and bilingual education and how they are infused into deaf education. It will also acquaint candidates with current trends and issues, and research in the education of Deaf and hard of hearing learners of all ages, including historic and current objectives, techniques, and results. The cultural, historical, philosophical, psychological, linguistic and social aspects of the Deaf community will also be addressed from educational perspective. Candidates are challenged to rethink their conceptualization of ”Deaf education” as well as ”general education” based on their perceptions of their own cultural dimensions. The course typically is taken in the first semester of study.