2016-2017 Undergraduate General Catalog


ASL 110 American Sign Language I

This course will emphasize the student’s development of receptive and expressive skills in ASL. In addition, the student will also learn functional vocabulary and how to utilize conversational techniques in ASL. The student will develop skills to recognize and express spatial relationships, use appropriate facial expressions and body movements, to visualize objects and use classifiers. Communication functions, vocabulary, grammar and cultural aspects of the Deaf community will be introduced and studied throughout the course.

Credits

3

Core Requirements

Perspectives: Languages

Must take a two semester sequence of the same language for this requirement.