American Sign Language II.

Catalog description

I, II. Prerequisite: ASL 101 with a minimum grade of "C" or departmental permission. Transfer students must have a departmental placement interview. Continued development of interpersonal, comprehension, and presentational communication skills in ASL–the visual, signed language of the Deaf community in the US and most of Canada. Students will continue to develop cross-modality communication strategies of ASL as a visual-gestural based language. They will continue to 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].