TESU Gen Ed: Oral Communication when DEAF

[ashkir]

Thank you for contacting our office. The Dean and I discussed your situation.  She has approved the TECEP exam COM-210 Public Relations, Thought and Practice; COM-100 Communication Theory and COM-339 The Story of Human Language as substitutions to satisfy the oral communication requirement.  COM-100 and COM-339 are offered as online courses.  A note has been placed in your file indicating these substitutions.  Please be sure to work with an advisor in selecting courses appropriate for your degree.

So does anyone know of any alternatives to:
COM-100 Communication Theory
COM-339 The Story of Human Language

Edit:

nevermind. Both require freaken SPEAKING. How can TESU be this dense?

Seriously, I would avoid dealing with TESU at all for this, and work with the course providers instead.  They will be WAY easier to deal with here.

I am seriously considering just switching to WGU or COSC at this point I am almost at 90 credits outside of upper levels from DAVAR.

I did request them to remove it from my degree plan.

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Thank you for contacting our office. The Dean and I discussed your situation.  She has approved the TECEP exam COM-210 Public Relations, Thought and Practice; COM-100 Communication Theory and COM-339 The Story of Human Language as substitutions to satisfy the oral communication requirement.  COM-100 and COM-339 are offered as online courses.  A note has been placed in your file indicating these substitutions.  Please be sure to work with an advisor in selecting courses appropriate for your degree.

So does anyone know of any alternatives to:
COM-100 Communication Theory
COM-339 The Story of Human Language

Edit:

nevermind. Both require freaken SPEAKING. How can TESU be this dense?

In your case, I would send an email requesting the speaking portion be removed. You have a valid medical reason and they must accommodate your disability. They have to make a reasonable accommodation which can be as simple as waving the speaking portion and having you submit the speech/presentation as a written paper instead. Maybe give them that suggestion so they don't come back with some other bizarre plan.

Thank you! I requested they remove this from my degree plan in clear language.

I also went ahead and told them how all of their suggestions were bad choices, and how 2 of them violate the ADA accomondation.