ASL 112 Beginning American Sign Language II -
This course emphasizes visual readiness skills and conversational skills by utilizing grammatical principles, language functions, and cultural behaviors. Students explore the functions of language and identify cultural behaviors characteristic of deaf people. Students increase their fluency in American Sign Language: describing behavior, making requests, and giving directions, etc. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 111 Semester Offered: F/S

ASL 113 Introduction to Deaf Studies -
This course utilizes a multidisciplinary perspective to emphasize issues and values affecting the American Deaf Community. Topics include the causes of hearing loss, the speech and hearing process, various manual sign systems, professions in the field of deafness, current events in the Deaf community, various aspects of deaf communication, technology and its impact on communication, educational philosophies, and the history of the Deaf in the United States. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 111 Semester Offered: S

ASL 114 Issues in Deaf Society -
This course explores relevant issues confronting the deaf members of the Deaf Community. Students examine issues that deal with community/cultural advocacy and advancement, confronting audism, cultural differences, educational, economic and legal barriers and deaf contributions to society. Students focus on preparing themselves for career fields where their constituents are deaf/Deaf or use ASL. Credits: 3 Semester Offered: F/S

ASL 119 Career Signing -
Students examine specific situational signing protocols associated with their chosen career and the cultural ethical issues relating to members of the Deaf Community. Students focus on specific American Sign Language signing vocabulary related to their individual career field of choice and the relating circumstances they may confront. Students also examine basic interpreting processes and codes of ethics. Examples of such careers include, but are not limited to: Community/Cultural Advocacy, Criminal Justice, Education, Nursing, Human Services and the Arts. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 112, ASL 113 Semester Offered: F/S

ASL 200 Deaf Community Practicum -
This course emphasizes practical experience by involving students in various educational or human service settings that service the Deaf Community. Students utilize receptive and expressive skills as well as their knowledge of Deaf Culture through first hand interaction and exposure. Students integrate their hands on experience with related readings, classroom discussions and student presentations. This course has a community based learning component. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 112, ASL 113, CORI/SORI Check Semester Offered: F/S

ASL 211 Intermediate American Sign Language I -
This course focuses on further development of visual-spatial orientation and manipulations skills, sign vocabulary, and complex sentence structures. Students continue learning strategies for opening, sustaining, and closing general conversations on a range of topics. The course concentrates on developing the abilities to question, narrate, and give increasingly detailed descriptions of activities, interactions, plans, and directions. Students learn how to communicate clearly and express themselves in a culturally appropriate way. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 112 Semester Offered: F/S

ASL 212 Intermediate American Sign Language II -
This course emphasizes further development of visual/spatial orientation, vocabulary, complex sentence structures and conversational skills. Students learn to give clearly detailed descriptions of activities, interactions, plans and directions. Through in-class assignments and interactions with the Deaf community students demonstrate complex conversational receptive and expressive skills. Students learn to analyze and discuss current events in the Deaf community using ASL. The course also covers ASL to voice and voice to ASL translating. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ASL 211 Semester Offered: S

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