Continuing Education

SLA 52 American Sign Language 2

This course is designed to continue development of American Sign Language (ASL) with a primary focus on refining the use of basic ASL sentence types. Pronominalization, classifiers, spatial referencing, pluralization, and temporal and distributional aspect are introduced. Students will learn routine communicative functions of the language: asking, requesting, providing clarification, giving and asking for directions. Information about the Deaf community and Deaf culture will be included.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

SLA 51 with a grade of "B" or equivalent and permission of program coordinator; or an ASL Placement Screening into SLA 52.