Tidewater Community College is located in Chesapeake, Virginia, in the southeastern Tidewater region of Virginia. The college offers programs that teach students both to be able to sign and to be able to interpret. In order to apply for a degree solely in interpreting American Sign Language, students must have prior experience in the language. Students with no signing experience who want to eventually study interpretation should start with the Career Studies Certificate, which teaches the language itself and then allows students to explore career options both in interpretation and in other fields using the language. After five semesters in American Sign Language, students are allowed to begin taking courses in interpretation.
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee offers bachelor's degrees in American Sign Language, as both a major and a minor, as well as an Interpreter Training Program. American Sign Language is offered both as an ASL Studies program and as a World Languages program and is always taught by professors who have been deaf from birth. Before taking any courses in interpretation, students must complete four classes in the language itself. The degree that students will earn at the end of the program is either a Bachelor of Education in American Sign Language or a Certification in Interpretation. Outside of class, the campus also offers students an American Sign Language association.
Union County College has four locations around New Jersey: Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield and Scotch Plains. The Plainfield campus offers an Associates in Arts degree in American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, as well as a Certificate in the subject and an American Sign Language-to-English Interpreting degree. There are four consecutive courses in American Sign Language, and students must earn at least a "C" in order to progress from one course to the next. These four courses must be completed in order to enter the degree program; in the first year of the degree program, students start working on complementary courses in the social sciences and deaf culture.
The Deaf Action Center is located in Shreveport, Louisiana. The center offers training in American Sign Language as well as in interpretation for interested individuals. There are four levels of classes at the Deaf Action Center; students must pass a test after each level in order to make it into the next level. Students start with basic grammar and syntax in the first level, and then progress to conversation in the second level. The third level concentrates on using American Sign Language in specific contexts, such as law or medicine, while the fourth level deals with interpretation of the language.