American Sign Language I.

Catalog description

I, II. An introductory course for students with little or no prior academic experience in ASL. This course emphasizes the development of interpersonal and comprehension communication skills in the visual, signed language of the Deaf community in the US and most of Canada. Students will develop cross-modality communication strategies of ASL as a visual-gestural based language. They will acquire practical vocabulary and foundational grammatical structures through immersive and interactive communicative activities. Students will also engage with short video-texts in ASL that focus on cultural topics of the Deaf community. Emphasis is placed on continually reinforcing language functions to build fluency and promote effective interpersonal and comprehension communication in ASL. 3 Lec/1 Lab. Gen. Ed. E-1C [OC] or E-3B [AH].