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ASL1104 - American Sign Language and Deaf Culture IV

Credits
3 (3/0/0)
Description
This course, the fourth in a series of American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture courses, focuses upon the grammatical features of ASL and vocabulary expansion. Content of this course will focus on sentence construction, inflecting verbs and classifiers. Fluency and accuracy of fingerspelling will continue to be developed, along with the use of lexicalized signs and numbering.
Prerequisites
  • Grade of B or better in ASL1103
Competencies
  1. Demonstrate visual skills and full visual attention by using ASL without resorting to spoken English.
  2. Identify and adjust to sign language variations.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of complex ASL grammatical principles.
  4. Produce a variety of ASL sentence constructions with increased thematic vocabulary and ASL structure.
  5. Display advanced proficiency in fingerspelling and comprehension of lexicalized signs.
  6. Identify and express appropriate meanings of ASL vocabulary in context.
  7. Demonstrate advanced proficiency in numbering.
  8. Use tense markers correctly.
  9. Produce and identify targeted vocabulary.
  10. Demonstrate advanced ability to converse with members of the Deaf community.
Degrees that use this course

American Sign Language Studies

Certificate