American Sign Language (ASL)

This course provides an introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. Students learn basic person-to-person conversational signing. The course emphasizes development of expressive and receptive skills. Students will increase their knowledge of ASL vocabulary and the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the language. The course begins to explore cultural issues related to the Deaf community.

This is the second course in the progress of introducing students to American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. The course continues with the development of expressive and receptive skills and of ASL vocabulary and the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the language. The course continues exploration of cultural issues in the Deaf community.

This course focuses on intermediate level skills in American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. Students will increase competencies in person-to-person conversational signing, including expressive and receptive skills, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

This course continues training in American Sign Language at the intermediate level, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs and idioms. The course may consider ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater and story telling, as well as Deaf history and other related topics.