<p>Anyone take ASL instead of another foreign language for their major prereq or IGETC prereq? Just curious if it affected your admissions at all, and how easy you thought it was, as opposed to maybe Spanish? I'm considering taking it, but I'm an American Lit major so I'd hate for the English department to raise a brow at me choosing sign language over a legitimate foreign language.</p>
<p>The thing is, I'd love to study it for use after law school, as a niche demographic I can approach and serve as a defense attorney.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken ASL myself at my community college, but I’m 99.99999999999% certain that the UCs will not look down upon taking an ASL class over spoken language classes.</p>
<p>If you can use ASL to satisfy English major requirements, you should be fine. Just maintain a strong GPA and you’ll be competitive for admission.</p>
<p>I did ASL because for some reason it fulfills the IGETC certification with just one class, when all the other foreign languages at my school required two semesters. Didn’t seem to affect my admissions, I was accepted to Berkeley, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCSC. (I didn’t apply to any others). </p>
<p>Thanks guys! Caliecon, That’s interesting, on my IGETC it accepts any single semester of any foreign language. Weird that yours required 2? </p>
<p>My only concern was that I’m entering the English department, literature in particular. The major prereq requires 2 semesters of a foreign language mixed with 2 semesters of foreign literature (4 semesters total), so having 2 of those be ASL feels kinda weird, but I guess we’ll see. I plan to briefly bring up the choice in my statement,to explain how I want to apply it after law school.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>@fullload I majored in English at Berkeley and they want the language so you can read literature in other languages, as I see you pretty much stated. I would check specifically with the English dept. Having ASL as a language is great for your career, but you may possibly need more for English. </p>