Programs
MBA Pre-term Program
The Penn Language Center (PLC) offers a series of Pre-Term courses in Chinese and Spanish with a business language focus. Each class meets for two and a half hours a day for the total of nine contact hours.
American Sign Language (ASL)
The mission of the American Sign Language (ASL) Program is to provide ASL and Deaf cultural learning opportunities to members of the Penn community. Penn’s ASL program is the largest and most comprehensive of all the schools in the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. We currently offer six courses in our program: Beginner ASL, parts I and II, Intermediate ASL, parts I and II, Medical ASL (a parallel course to Intermediate ASL, part II), Advanced ASL, part I—a course that focuses on the history of the Deaf in America, and a Topics in Deaf Culture course—an advanced content course in which students discuss issues related to deafness and Deaf culture in the target language—ASL. Throughout the six-course sequence, Deaf cultural topics are integrated into the curriculum via assigned readings and subsequent on-line and in-class discussions, attendance at our guest lecture series and Deaf community events in Philadelphia, as well as through other media and technology resources.