Assignment 1: 21st Century Challenges for Deaf People!
Despite the attitudinal problems of the last two centuries, deaf people enter the new millennium with a great deal of hope.  Discuss, and support with research evidence, how you believe the position of deaf people has changed.  Indicate how deaf people are ready to grasp the opportunities of the 21st century.  You should be careful to be analytical and not anecdotal; make sure you have evidence to support your claims in each section.

Assignment 2: Deaf People in Employment
Analyse the research on deaf people in employment and indicate how the resulting socio-economic position of deaf people has influenced the society which has grown in the UK or in another country.  You can use the various reports on the surveys of employment and session 6 will be especially relevant.

Assignment 3: Cochlear Implants - another final solution?
Examine how the actions and approach of hearing people over the last two centuries has produced a focus on hearing rather than deafness and determine the effects on deaf people's lives.   Look at various solutions, not only cochlear implants.  Be very careful to be objective in what is a highly emotive topic.