ASL& 123 - American Sign Language III

5.0 Credits
Continuation of ASL& 122. Vocabulary expansion, idioms, and increasingly sophisticated grammatical structures. Focus on receptive skills continues with an increased emphasis on expressive skills. Continuing study of Deaf culture.
Prerequisite ASL& 122 with a minimum grade of 2.0 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Explain more complex grammatical structures of ASL, such as pronoun/number combinations, contrastive structures, basic classifiers, and past and future tenses.
Demonstrate receptive and expressive signing skills in using conversational ASL.
Demonstrate the ability to initiate, conduct, and terminate short conversations in ASL using appropriate conversational regulator.
Use videos to critically observe and analyze their own signing skills.
Demonstrate an awareness of Deaf culture through contextual settings in class.