Classification of instructional programs (CIP) Canada 2000

Classification of instructional programs (CIP) Canada 2000
Introduction

1 - Chapter I: Academic and Occupation-specific Programs

This chapter comprises academic and occupation-specific instructional programs offered for academic credit at one or more postsecondary educational levels. These programs usually result in recognized completion points and awards such as degrees, diplomas, certificates or other formal awards.

16. - Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on foreign languages and literatures, the humanistic and scientific study of linguistics, and the provision of professional interpretation and translation services.

16.16 - Sign Language

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 16.1601 to 16.1699.

16.1601 - American Sign Language (ASL)

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on American Sign Language as a visual and motor medium of communication and discourse for deaf individuals and deaf culture. These programs include courses in the development of ASL, ASL morphology and syntax, signing technique, English translation of ASL, formal and colloquial ASL, and ASL transcription.

  • Example Program Names:

    • American Sign Language (ASL)
    • Langage des signes québécois (LSQ)
    • Sign language

  • Exclusion

    • Teacher of the deaf(13.1003)
    • Linguistics of signed languages(16.1602)
    • Sign language interpretation(16.1603)
16.1602 - Linguistics of Sign Language

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific and scholarly study of the development, structure, and use of American Sign Language (ASL), le langage des signes québécois (LSQ), and other visual signed languages, both as vehicles for communication within the deaf community and in relation to spoken and written languages. These programs include courses in cognitive linguistics; sign language phonology, syntax, and morphology; sociolinguistics of the deaf community; comparative linguistics; and studies of specific sign languages such as ASL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language), LSF (French Sign Language), LSQ, Shuwa jiten (Japanese Sign Language), HamNoSys (German Sign Language), Gestuno, and others.

  • Example Program Names:

    • Linguistics of signed languages

  • Exclusion

    • American Sign Language (ASL)(16.1601)
    • Sign language interpretation(16.1603)
16.1603 - Sign Language Interpretation and Translation

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to function as simultaneous interpreters of American Sign Language (ASL), le langage des signes québécois (LSQ), and other sign language systems employed to assist the hearing impaired, both one-way and two-way. These programs include courses in sign language, finger spelling, vocabulary and expressive nuances, oral and physical translation skills, cross-cultural communications, slang and colloquialisms, and technical interpretation.

  • Example Program Names:

    • American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting
    • ASL interpreting
    • Sign language communicator
    • Sign language interpretation
16.1699 - Sign Language, Other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Sign Language.

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