MEETING DAYS & TIMES: Online, No set time
LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Glenna Cooper

The study of literature of ASL stories in the Deaf community and relationship to other world literatures and developing stories. Students will learn the comprehension of different forms of ASL literature and the effects of genre, style, perspective, and other artistic techniques on ASL narratives, humor, poetry, folklore, and the techniques in stories. Develop and narrate within features and techniques in different formats of ASL literature. Prerequisite: ASLE 1373 and ASLE 1413

Online Professional Certificate 

After completing this hands-on program, you’ll have the foundational and technical context to understand how to build solutions and solve technical problems and how to choose the right AWS solution. You’ll master both the soft skills to become successful cloud consultants and the technical knowledge to go deep into how software gets built, tested and deployed.

NEW CLASS

MEETING DAYS & TIMES:  Online, No set meeting time
INSTRUCTOR:  Michael McRuiz

A presentation of key concepts, techniques, and tools found within Acrobat Professional.  Emphasis on Acrobat basics, keyboard shortcuts, creating PDF docs, combining files into PDF portfolios, creating PDF documents from web pages, editing PDF files, adding signatures and security, creating media-rich presentations, working with forms, using Acrobat in professional publishing, employing commenting tools, and making documents accessible and flexible. Students are encouraged to obtain Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) status.

Students who enroll will need their own Adobe Creative Cloud license

ONLINE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

ACCESS: 6 Months

Akamai Customer Consulting

As part of the program students will build and secure a LINUX virtual machine using virtualization technology. They will also create complex networks using Cisco Packet Tracer, implementing routing, NAT, port forwarding, DHCP, DNS, and packet sniffers, as well as troubleshooting and resolving complex network problems.

Students will design a relational database to contain customer data and security incidents and create queries to analyze date. They will also create and format a multiple page web site that includes graphics, video and audio, and a consistent theme with image maps, columns, tables, and animation.  The web site will include forms for collecting user data and authenticating users.

ONLINE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

ACCESS: 6 months

Akamai Network Engineering

In this program, students will build and secure a Linux virtual machine using virtualization technology. They will also create complex networks using Cisco Packet Tracer, implementing routing, NAT, port forwarding, DHCP, DNS, and packet sniffers.  

Students will also design a relational database to contain customer data and security incidents and create queries to analyze the data. Then, after creating 4 Python applications from scratch: an age calculator, a word guessing game, a lemonade stand game, and a text-based adventure game, students will create the code to connect a web site to the database to authenticate users and provide user-specific content to users after login.

 

MEETING DAYS & TIMES: Online
LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Glenna Cooper

An introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) which includes the development of receptive and expressive skills in authentic situations and an introduction to Deaf culture. This introductory course in ASL uses a natural language approach to introduce culturally appropriate signed concepts related to the immediate environment. Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire a basic working vocabulary and grammar. The course includes the development of appropriate linguistic/cultural behaviors and awareness of respect for Deaf culture. Receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without voice.

LOCATION: Online 
INSTRUCTOR: TBD

An introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) which includes the development of receptive and expressive skills in authentic situations and an introduction to Deaf culture.  This introductory course in ASL uses a natural language approach to introduce culturally appropriate signed concepts related to the immediate environment.  Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire a basic working vocabulary and grammar.  The course includes the development of appropriate linguistic/cultural behaviors and awareness of respect for Deaf culture.  Receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without voice.

8-week Course, Starts March 10th!

MEETING DAYS & TIMES: Online, no set time
LOCATION: Online 
INSTRUCTOR: Gayle VanTrease

An introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) which includes the development of receptive and expressive skills in authentic situations and an introduction to Deaf culture.  This introductory course in ASL uses a natural language approach to introduce culturally appropriate signed concepts related to the immediate environment.  Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire a basic working vocabulary and grammar.  The course includes the development of appropriate linguistic/cultural behaviors and awareness of respect for Deaf culture.  Receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without voice.

An introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) which includes the development of receptive and expressive skills in authentic situations and an introduction to Deaf culture.  This introductory course in ASL uses a natural language approach to introduce culturally appropriate signed concepts related to the immediate environment.  Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire a basic working vocabulary and grammar.  The course includes the development of appropriate linguistic/cultural behaviors and awareness of respect for Deaf culture.  Receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without voice.

LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Gayle VanTrease

Continuation of American Sign Language I. This course further develops receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language in authentic situations and expands the study of Deaf culture. This course progresses from common, concrete communicative events and interactions to language expressing abstract ideas. Emphasis is on the comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures focusing on dialogues and conversational expressions. More complex receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without spoken English. Prerequisite: ASLE 1363 with a grade of "C" or better or instructor approval.

LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: TBD

Continuation of American Sign Language I. This course further develops receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language in authentic situations and expands the study of Deaf culture. This course progresses from common, concrete communicative events and interactions to language expressing abstract ideas. Emphasis is on the comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures focusing on dialogues and conversational expressions. More complex receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without spoken English. Prerequisite: ASLE 1363 with a grade of "C" or better or instructor approval.

8 Week Course

LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Gayle VanTrease

Continuation of American Sign Language I. This course further develops receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language in authentic situations and expands the study of Deaf culture. This course progresses from common, concrete communicative events and interactions to language expressing abstract ideas. Emphasis is on the comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures focusing on dialogues and conversational expressions. More complex receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without spoken English. Prerequisite: ASLE 1363 with a grade of "C" or better or instructor approval.

LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Gayle VanTrease

Continuation of American Sign Language I. This course further develops receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language in authentic situations and expands the study of Deaf culture. This course progresses from common, concrete communicative events and interactions to language expressing abstract ideas. Emphasis is on the comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures focusing on dialogues and conversational expressions. More complex receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without spoken English. Prerequisite: ASLE 1363 with a grade of "C" or better or instructor approval.

Continuation of American Sign Language I. This course further develops receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language in authentic situations and expands the study of Deaf culture. This course progresses from common, concrete communicative events and interactions to language expressing abstract ideas. Emphasis is on the comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures focusing on dialogues and conversational expressions. More complex receptive and expressive skills are fostered through interactive ASL lessons without spoken English.

MEETING DAYS & TIMES: Online, No Set Time
LOCATION:  Online
INSTRUCTOR: Glenna Cooper
 

An ASL course focusing on specific grammatical and cultural topics. Emphasis is on the development of fluent conversational skills utilizing grammatical non-manual signals and markers. Students will learn how to narrate, describe, compare, and comment. Narratives of native language users are utilized for beginning text analysis of ASL. Interactive ASL lessons without voice lead to expanded vocabulary mastery and fluency lab component. Includes lab component. Prerequisite: ASLE 1373 with a grade of "C" or better or instructor approval.

ONLINE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

ACCESS: 6 Months

CVS Health Call Center Customer Service

This program uniquely prepares learners for their new role by using a blend of videos, activities, discussions, simulations, peer-reviewed projects, and a final capstone. As you complete each of these activities, you will create experiences that you can reference in job interviews or even as you work with customers after you have landed the job. At the end of this program you will be able to:

• Create positive interactions with customers
• De-escalate conflict with customers
• Create solutions to customer problems
• Describe the different roles in call center customer service

ONLINE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

ACCESS; 6 Months

CVS Health Retail Customer Service

This program uniquely prepares you for your new role by using a blend of videos, activities, discussions, simulations, peer-reviewed projects, and a final capstone.  As you complete each of these activities, you will create experiences that you can reference in job interviews or even as you work with customers after you have landed the job.

At the end of this program you will be able to: 
- Create positive interactions with customers
- De-escalate conflict with customers
- Process Retail transactions in real-world situations
- Describe the different roles in retail customer service