American Sign Language (ASL)

ASL 1014. American Sign Language - Basic I. (3-3) 4 Credit Hours. (TCCN = SGNL 1401)

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Opportunity to begin developing oral and written communication skills in the target language, along with enhanced comprehension skills in listening and reading. Linguistic and cultural immersion. May be repeated up to 8 semester credit hours. Generally offered: Fall. Course Fee: LRLF $10.27; MM01 $7; STLF $24.64.

ASL 1024. American Sign Language: Basic II. (3-3) 4 Credit Hours. (TCCN = SGNL 1402)

Prerequisite: ASL 1014 or instructor authorization. Continued study of American Sign Language, including sign language colloquialisms used in conversational signing. Expands students’ receptive and expressive ASL skills and provides a summary of the available information dealing with ASL grammatical structure and its sociolinguistic and pragmatic usage.

ASL 2013. American Sign Language: Intermediate I. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours. (TCCN = SGNL 2301)

Prerequisite: ASL 1014 and ASL 1024, or consent of instructor. This course is designed to help students improve their expressive, receptive, and general conversational ASL proficiency, particularly in morphology, semantics, syntax, and lexicon. Students will demonstrate their use of ASL for interactive purposes. Course Fees: STLF $18.48; LRLF $10.27.

ASL 2023. American Sign Language: Intermediate II. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours. (TCCN = SGNL 2302)

Prerequisite: ASL 1014, ASL 1024, and ASL 2013, or consent of instructor. This course is designed to further extend students’ use of ASL skills for communicating with persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Expands accuracy in using expressive and receptive skills. Students will encode and decode ASL forms related to a variety of topics and situations. Course Fees: LRLF $10.27; STLF $18.48.