Really want an engineering college, not just a university with engineering AND an Sign Language program. Especially willing to consider smaller out of state schools.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I’m not sure what you’re looking for…
A lot of large public universities have extensive sign language programs (see link below for an example), they also tend to have large, very good engineering programs.
http://slhs.phhp.ufl.edu/academics/course-descriptions/
Take a look at the engineering schools you’re interested in, and see if they offer an ASL program/class.
EDIT: take care to consider what your end goal is…if it’s to major in engineering and take some ASL classes, it will be fairly easy to do. However, if you’re looking to major in engineering but also minor/major in a Health/Communication Science major, then carefully review the requirements to make sure the university would support that option.
I think Rochester Institute of Technology has such a thing.
Yes, RIT. It is together with NTID (National Technical Institute or the Deaf). There is a big deaf/hard of hearing student population at RIT.
One of the colleges at RIT is NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf). So not only does RIT offer ASL, there are exceptional opportunities for actually using/practicing it, including ASL interpreters in classes to support hearing-impaired students.
RIT is the place.
Boston University is another school that comes to mind. They have a Deaf Studies program in the School of Education as well as a College of Engineering, but does not really fit your criterion of an engineering college exclusively.
RIT is known for their ASL program.
Tufts has a smaller program in their Child Study Department, along with ongoing research into sign languages in the Psychology Department. They also created an award winning ASL database (which an undergraduate from the Engineering Department contributed to). Tufts is small enough that there is a lot of interdisciplinary work going on between the School of Liberal Arts and the School of Engineering.
http://now.tufts.edu/articles/visual-dictionary-sign-language
https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2017/04/27/tufts-professor-other-researchers-win-award-for-sign-language-database/
Thanks for all of the feedback!
When I think of Engineering school I think of all or most of the people on campus are engineering, science or math majors…no other majors. One campus we went to this year had engineering, math, science and psychology…that was it. It was great, except the school didn’t have ASL. We love ASL since a family member is Deaf and it is a big priority.
I had no idea about Tufts. Thanks. This is really exciting and it will give me something to seriously consider.
We are planning on visiting Rochester for a week this year. So far it is at the top of the list. I was hoping there was another school because RIT is so expensive if not done through NTID. Maybe I need to start looking into Merit scholarships.