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I have heard about Gallaudet and RIT as being a school for deaf people, but CSUN? What is CSUN? Anyone care to tell me about this school a little bit?
 
CSUN is university for most students people and small number of deaf students with deaf program.

My friend goes to CSUN and he love it. :)
 
Hello all,

I took some classes at CSUN. I liked it there. I have had wonderful interpreters and notetakers at CSUN. This school offers some classes only for Deaf students for credit, not remedial classes (no credit). I took English Literature class with Barbara Boyd. I LOVED her. She is deaf and really a great teacher. I don't know if she is still there.

I took several history classes there with twerpers and notetakers. I attended WW II, Hitler's Germany, and others.

There are lots of great departments there. They have a deaf studies program. Just don't take Genie Gertz's class. She is very controlling. She tends to give higher grades to women than to men.:rifle:

I recall that there is a dorm especially designed for Deaf students to live there with all the lights and stuff that meets ADA requirements.

There are lots of events hosted by Deafies there.

There is a nice building called NCOD... National Center on Deafness.

I wished that I graduated with a history major there at CSUN. Oh well... I got my major at SJSU... San Jose State University.

That's all I can think of.
 
I'm a CSUN alumnus. As mentioned earlier, it's California State University, Northridge, located in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, CA.

Loved it, graduated in 2003. Got a career job right away upon graduation.

CSUN hosts the 3rd largest deaf college population in the U.S. Gallaudet has about 1800 students (undergrad and graduate), RIT has about 900, and CSUN has 250. CSUN has a huge hearing population though -- 30,000 students all together on a huge campus. Gallaudet only has 2000 students, and RIT has about 10,000.

It's mostly a mainstream university -- interpreters, captionists, notetakers, and other support services are widely provided, and you take whatever courses you want towards your degree, unlike NTID where you can get an AAS from NTID then you transfer to RIT to get your Bachelor's. CSUN is purely a 4 year University with many Master's programs mixed in.

Lots of social and academic opportunities. Warm weather year round, never snows, beach within driving distance, Disneyland and Universal Studios theme parks, tons of stuff to do.

PM me if you want to know more.
 
I heard that CSUN now has 600 students and not 250 anymore. I heard NTID/RIT has 1,500 deaf students. I don't know about Gallaudet, but it's obvious they will have more deaf students. Thanks for the link.
 
Hah, I wish CSUN had 600 students. Naw, there's just not enough interpreters for all those students, so there's only 200-250 students.

Well, if I'm totally wrong, I'll happily admit I'm ignorant of exactly how many students there are, but I only left 3 years ago and I last visited in 2005. That means that in one year, enrollment jumped by 400 students. Going from 200 to 600 college students in one year is just not possible.

Expect that number to rise though, now that Dr. Rosen is in charge. I'm optimistic that she'll have a strong positive impact on the school.


NTID/RIT only have a combined 800-1000 students. That I know is accurate -- I was just there last week! DeafNation was in Rochester just recently.
 
I have good respect for CSUN as it's not making the type of news we been getting from the other deaf school.
 
I just spoke to an application process coordinator who works for NCOD at CSUN four days ago. There are currently around 180-189 deaf/HoH CSUN students. The exact number she gave me I don't remember but I think it was 182 or 186.
 
That's cool, so what were you doing there regarding the application process?

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The National Center on Deafness rocks. Especially more so now. They were a big help to me and many of my colleagues. Their detractors tend to be those who can't get enough of themselves.
 
That's.... too bad you feel that way. 30,000 hearing students, 250 deaf students, 100+ interpreters, 20 real time captionists, 20 typewell captionists, 50+ professional notetakers, in addition to deaf counselors, faculty and staff, and you still felt alone. I'm sorry, Patricia.
 
Well, if one lives like a hermit, it can get quite lonely. If you know the right kind of people, you will be very busy at CSUN. :cool:
 
Hey Woofy,

i heard that about CSUN. there are a lot of deaf students, but rarely from International students. i do better go to RIT.
 
I'm talking about...

If you wanna be around Deaf people 24 hours a day, go to Gallaudet.

If you wanna be around Deaf people for an hour, then go to CSUN or RIT.

But because I felt alone in 30,000 hearing people college, the only time
I get to see deaf people is when I am in DORM 6 (deaf student dorm)...
And when I did stay at Dorm 6, I got mostly hearing roommates who
major in deaf studies wanna be all in your face, "how do you sign this?"

And also other time I get to see Deaf people all together is when
I take some Deaf studies classes or at the NCOD deaf event.

That is all....

If I wanna hang out with hearing people most of the time, I might
as well go to COLLEGE near my home.
 
Woofy said:
Well, if one lives like a hermit, it can get quite lonely. If you know the right kind of people, you will be very busy at CSUN. :cool:
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I stay mostly in my room as a hermit to stay away from horny boys.
And my black roommates kept bringing boys in my bedroom...
one time, I was half naked... AHHHHH!!! :eek3:
 
Sunshinelady said:
Hey Woofy,

i heard that about CSUN. there are a lot of deaf students, but rarely from International students. i do better go to RIT.
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There are definitely international students. I would say it's fair that about 10%, max, of the students at all three schools have international students.

That comes out to be:

Gally = 1800 students = 180 international students
RIT = 1000 students = 100 international students
CSUN = 200 students = 20 international students

I met and made friends with people from Korea, Sweden, UK, Mexico and Canada.
 
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