UW-Madison to debut American Sign Language program

The Language Sciences department will offer ASL courses for the first time in university history.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison language sciences department is offering its first ASL course at the university, Linguistics 351: American Sign Language 1, in the fall of 2023. 

The course sequence aims to help students communicate in ASL, which includes “producing and comprehending ASL across a wide variety of contexts and social settings, a thorough overview of ASL grammar and structure, an understanding of appropriate pragmatic usage and knowledge and appreciation of Deaf culture and history,” according to the language sciences website.