American Sign Language III

Catalog description

Prerequisites: LIST 4050 - ASL I and LIST 4090 - ASL II or instructor approval. This course is an advanced study of American Sign Language. The focus is on developing advanced principles and skills of American Sign Language through cultural appreciation and non-verbal instructions. Emphasis is placed on Deaf culture and Deaf people in history, visual training, sign vocabulary acquisition, comprehension, classifiers, and communicative skills development, as well as basic structural and grammatical patterns of ASL discourse.