CSD 28300 - Intermediate American Sign Language III

This course is the third semester of intermediate level American Sign Language. This course builds on skills in the first year of ASL courses to develop more complex ASL grammatical features, vocabulary, short stories, narratives and dialogues. Included is an awareness for and information related to Deaf culture and local Deaf community.

Preparation for Course
P: CSD 18200 or by Placement Exam.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1.   Students will engage in ASL discourse with confidence on topics including locating things around the home; commenting on experiences; making suggestions; exchanging personal information about life events; future and past; and readily communicate with members of local Deaf community.
2.   Students will narrate a two paragraph story using specified ASL structures including non-manual markers, topicalization, conditionals, contrastive structure, reference points, spatial locations and classifiers related to storytelling around a variety of topics.
3.   Students will demonstrate intermediate level mastery of receptive and expressive fingerspelling as well as an understanding of when to use and when not to use fingerspelling.
4.   Students will comfortably integrate numbers into ASL conversations.