Advanced American Sign Language 4

Catalog description

Focuses 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 basic fluency with native ASL signers. Material covered in class provides linguistic principles of American Sign Language at the advanced 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 fluency of a student’s ability to express him/herself using ASL. A focus on the nature of sociolinguistics in ASL will be introduced and a greater emphasis on the development of a second language in society for ASL students. ASLA 2001 or consent of dept. chair required.