Sign Language/Deaf Culture for Teachers

Catalog description

This course enables the students to develop basic conversational skills in American Sigh Language. This course will emphasize basic person to person conversational signing, including sign vocabulary, fingerspelling, numbers and expressive & receptive signing skills. Students will also learn the history of ASL as well as become knowledgeable of aspects of Deaf Culture. This course focuses on interpersonal communication. It emphasizes introducing language in context and reinforcement through various activities that are interactive. The student will be an active learner in this class and must be prepared to sign with the instructor and with peers during and outside of class.