Compass Prep

This year-long, one-day-a-week, interactive, personalized course aims to educate those who have minimal knowledge of Sign Language, moving to advance each student into a wide range of communication skills. While teaching thousands of signs throughout the course, there will also be a major emphasis put on cultural awareness – Understanding the meaning behind signs and cultural norms in the deaf community. Additionally, students will learn the best ways to retain sign material, develop important receptive skills, learn to use facial expressions that correspond to a wide variety of signs and topics, practice building basic introductory sentences, and understand how to approach interactions through visual perspective. From the start, this fun and engaging course ensures the rapid growth of each student's signing knowledge & abilities, always surpassing expectations. The underlying goal is to minimize and ultimately eliminate barriers to communication in exchanges with Deaf & hard of hearing individuals.

Coursestorm Online Enrollment is Free. Course Fee: $450. A $50 non-refundable course enrollment deposit will be billed immediately upon registration and applies toward your overall tuition.  The balance must be paid by July 1, or select a payment plan of $200 payable by July 1 and November 1.

Accepted Payment Methods: Check, Cash, Zelle, PayPal, and Venmo

Recommended Credits: 1.0

Course Meets: Tuesdays

Required Materials: Students will need to create a free account on Microsoft Teams. All other course materials will be provided by the instructor.

All Payments are non-refundable

Section A is a one-day-a-week course meeting on Tuesdays.