Intermediate American Sign Language 3

Catalog description

Continues focus on vocabulary expansion, idioms, manual and non-manual aspects of ASL, ASL linguistics, cross- cultural communication and cultural knowledge at an intermediate/advanced level. After this course, students can communicate comfortably with native ASL signers. Material covered in class provides linguistic principles of American Sign Language at the upper intermediate level and grammatical structures for complex sentences. ASL expressive presentations are performed in small groups and on an individual basis. An increased focus is on the improvement of a student’s ability to express him/herself using ASL.