ASLA 121 - American Sign Language II

3 Credits
This second semester American Sign Language course is a continuation of language skills and cultural enrichment introduced in ASLA 111. The course will not prepare students to become interpreters but is designed to advance language skills and further promote understanding of deaf culture. This course is particularly useful for students pursuing careers such as allied health, nursing, medical management, or other healthcare related fields as well as paralegal studies where clients may be deaf. The class is designed to allow students to complement their degrees with an ASL experience.

Prerequisite(s): ASLA 111 with a C or better grade
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Apply the next level of language skills to produce ASL in a larger variety of ways to communicate effectively with deaf adults and children who depend on visual representations of English for communication.
2. Use a broader array of classifiers through directionality, word signs, noun placements, and non-manual signals.
3. Produce a broader range of receptive comprehension and expressive information.
4. Examine the diversity of the deaf culture through theory, discussion, guest speakers, and local events.