Deaf Culture, Linguistics and Manual Communication Code Systems

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Pre - requisites: HLAG 6300 Through this course, students will acquire the basic concepts for the development of expressive and receptive dexterities of communication through visual, gesture and manual modalities. The historic aspects of the development of the Puerto Rican sign langu age will be discussed. The concepts of culture and community, applied to the deaf population, as fundamental aspects of the socio -linguistics of deafness, will be studied. Instructional strategies will include, lectures, readings, group discussions, role playing, and invited deaf guests that will provide the students opportunities to become familiarized with the deaf culture, as well as provide practice sign language sessions.