American Sign Language I 4.0 UNITS

Catalog description

This beginning course is designed for students who wish to develop technical and grammatical knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL). This course is taught within the context of deaf culture, students will increase their ability to communicate in ASL. This course focuses on ASL structure and grammatical features as used by native signers. The goal is to take students with little or no knowledge of ASL and Deaf culture and provide them with the skills needed to communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community. This course is equivalent to two years of high school American Sign Language.