American Sign Language 101: why not?

[Francis Hult]

The Daily Princetonian

 

American Sign Language 101: why not?

 

Like many other Princeton students, I spent my Fall Break not going home and relaxing, but on one of the Pace Center's BreakOut trips, learning about Deaf culture and public policy in Washington, D.C. One of the key goals of the trip was to learn the basics of American Sign Language (ASL), which turned out to be amazingly fun and rewarding. So rewarding, in fact, that I'm writing a column to ask: Why doesn't Princeton, which even offers Swahili and Sanskrit courses, offer some kind of for-credit class in ASL?

 

Full story:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/12/08/24678/

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