ASL 121American Sign Language I

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This course will cover a general introduction to American Sign Language, its structure, grammatical rules, and vocabulary. These areas include topics such as the manual alphabet, basic words,sentences, numbers, phonology, morphology, the use of the space, classifier verbs, adjectives,nouns,pronouns, non-manual, cues and finger spelling. It will also cover issues related to deaf culture and history. There will be assignments outside of the classroom. This course is taught primarily in American Sign Language.