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| American Sign Language I | |||
| AM SIGN LANG I | |||
| CLASS CODE: | SIGN 101 | CREDITS: 3 | |
| DIVISION: | BUSINESS & COMMUNICATION | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | COMMUNICATION | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| CATALOG DESCRIPTION: | Development of basic conversational-level skills, general overview of the deaf culture and current issues of interest to the deaf community. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | SIGN 101 provides an opportunity to develop beginning conversational skills in American Sign Language and a beginning knowledge of culture, history and other topics relating to the deaf community in America. A beginning understanding of ASL grammatical structure with associated non-manual features will be incorporated. | ||
| TOPICS: | Readiness Activities. Receptive Skills. Expressive Skills. Introduction to history, culture, and range of communication systems used by the American deaf population. |
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| OBJECTIVES: | Basic conversational level in receptive and expressive skills. Working knowledge of basic grammatical structures and non-manual behaviors. Working knowledge of the history, culture, and range of communication systems used by the American deaf population. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | 100% attendance. Oral Book Report. Reference Notebook. Lab for receptive skills (six hours). Final project in ASL. Student workbook (Chapters 1-12). Expressive practice outside of the classroom. |
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| PREREQUISITES: | Beginning students. | ||
| OTHER: | American Sign Language (ASL) is taught in this course. | ||
| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 1994 | ||