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<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Redlands Community College offers American Sign Language I and II. These are three semester hour courses generally taken by education majors. Most of our transfer universities
have language in the catalog that is similar or identical to these:</span></h4>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">From OU’s online advisement site:
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#333333">All teacher candidates must demonstrate that they are proficient at the novice-high level in a language other than English. This can be demonstrated by passing the proficiency exam
or by completing the first two college level courses in a foreign language. American Sign Language counts as a foreign language.</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#333333">From NSU’s site:
</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#4F6228">How do I meet the foreign language proficiency requirement?</span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Candidates admitted to the Teacher Education Program must demonstrate proficiency</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">in a foreign language at the high novice level prior to graduation with at least a “C” or</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">better. Possible courses are but not limited to the following: Spanish, German, Chinese,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Cherokee, and American Sign Language. Candidate may be a native speak and can</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">arrange testing to determine proficiency levels.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#333333"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Bill Baker</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Redlands Community College</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> oacrao-l-bounces@lists.onenet.net [mailto:oacrao-l-bounces@lists.onenet.net]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are interested as to whether or not your institution offers classes in ASL and if so if you allow it to meet the foreign language requirement
in your degree program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">David Fulmer</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">University Registrar</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Oral Roberts University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.oru.edu/whole_person/scholarship/purpose.php/"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="412" height="99" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC1074.0BA909E0"></span></a></span></p>
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