ASL 2160

American Sign Language III

American Sign Language III builds on skills learned in American Sign Language I/II, adding advanced ASL grammatical features, complex vocabulary for abstract ideas, idioms, short stories, poetry and conversational norms. This course further develops ASL receptive and expressive skills, dialogue skills, extensive use of classifiers and complex use of space. It introduces ASL linguistics with proper interpretation between ASL and English. Deaf culture and history are discussed. This course requires out-of-class interaction with the Deaf community. Completion of this course helps satisfy the Daytona State College foreign language requirements.

Units: 4.0