ASL 2030 - American Sign Language III

4 Credits

Prerequisite(s): ASL1020
The grammatical topics of ASL will be reinforced. The discussion of each topic will be covered and become more complex and detailed. Primary focus is to develop receptive skills and refining the expressive skills in using ASL through dialogues and viewing Deaf ASL natives on videotapes. The topics covered are sentence types, time, pronominalization, subjects and objects, classifiers, locatives, pluralization, and temporal and distributional aspects. Students will be expected to carry on conversation correctly using all ASL grammatical principles that have been learned to date and will be expected to be able to understand an average Deaf person’s ASL with less difficulty. Role shifting is also included. Offered (Fall)