American Sign Language

Yavapai College offers several levels of American Sign Language classes to give students the opportunity to acquire proficiency in communication in the language by means of a wide variety of activities in class and on the computer. Listening, signing, reading, and writing in the target language are practiced in each class.  
 
By completing American Sign Language courses students can:  
• Transfer modern language credits to universities  
• Broaden their employment opportunities and/or command a higher salary by becoming proficient in sign language  
• Jumpstart a major in a language  
• Expand their empathy toward speakers of other languages and/or towards the deaf community  
• Develop an understanding of cultures and practices that are not their own  
 
American Sign Language is offered at the Prescott and Verde Valley campuses.