ASLD at University of Pennsylvania

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ASLD coursework.

• ASLD 0200American Sign Language IIopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• ASLD 0300American Sign Language IIIopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• ASLD 0400American Sign Language IVopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ASLD work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 11 ASLD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more ASLD courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ASLD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ASLD 1030

  1. ASLD 0100American Sign Language I
  2. ASLD 0200American Sign Language II
  3. ASLD 0300American Sign Language III
  4. ASLD 0400American Sign Language IV
  5. ASLD 1030Advanced ASL and Deaf History

• 2 courses deep, ending at ASLD 1033

  1. ASLD 1032Deaf Culture
  2. ASLD 1033ASL/Deaf Studies - ABCS

• 2 courses deep, ending at ASLD 2047

  1. LING 0001Introduction to Linguistics
  2. ASLD 2047Structure of American Sign Language

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ASLD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ASLD yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ASLD does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.