American Sign Language (ASL) 3

This course is a continuation of American Sign Language (ASL) 1 and 2 and will build on students' knowledge of ASL as a World Language. In this course students will develop receptive and expressive abilities that allow them to recognize and demonstrate more sophisticated cultural and grammatical features of ASL. Students will increase fluency and accuracy in fingerspelling and numbers and continue to explore the Deaf World and American Deaf culture and history. Additionally, students will cover topics such as, but not limited to: Sign Languages around the world; Immigration and family history; Recipes; Describing shapes and environments; Locating things around the house; Weekend activities; Illnesses; ASL Poetry; and handshape stories, storytelling, slang, idioms, and jokes.

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