American Sign Language IV
Prerequisites: Completion of ASL 103, or prior to enrolling in ASL 104, students must consult ASL professors for language placement, ensuring readiness based on prior experience.
This intermediate ASL course refines students' expressive and receptive skills. Advanced linguistic structures introduced and put into practice. Vocabulary-building in specific challenging areas: academics, occupations, computer technologies, and abstract nouns. Current events discussed in ASL, giving students opportunities to apply linguistic-cultural knowledge while participating in open discussions.
Outcomes: 1) Comprehension and expression with intermediate ASL vocabulary and correct grammar; 2) Narrate and describe events in connected, paragraph-length ASL discourse; 3) Exchange information and perspectives in group settings at intermediate level.
This intermediate ASL course refines students' expressive and receptive skills. Advanced linguistic structures introduced and put into practice. Vocabulary-building in specific challenging areas: academics, occupations, computer technologies, and abstract nouns. Current events discussed in ASL, giving students opportunities to apply linguistic-cultural knowledge while participating in open discussions.
Outcomes: 1) Comprehension and expression with intermediate ASL vocabulary and correct grammar; 2) Narrate and describe events in connected, paragraph-length ASL discourse; 3) Exchange information and perspectives in group settings at intermediate level.