American Sign Language II: 3 semester hours

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In this course, students will expand their knowledge of ASL, Deaf Culture, Deaf History, and the Deaf Community. We will focus on the instruction and development of vocabulary, grammar, fingerspelling, basic classifiers, and overall sign production. Projects, presentations, a plethora of skill-building activities, exercises, and games as well as interactive communication, will be used to enhance and enrich developing expressive and receptive skills in the target language. Throughout the course, students will be able to continue performing the tasks of the novice language learner, such as understanding signed phrases, producing learned signs, phrases sentences, and stories & understanding the importance of grammar, culture, & communication in ASL. Prerequisites: SGNL 1301 .