2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HEPR 206 - American Sign Language III


Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-205
This class will continue to focus on vocabulary expansion, idioms, manual and non-manual aspects of ASL, ASL linguistics, cross-cultural communication and cultural knowledge at an advanced level. At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to communicate fluently with native ASL signers. Material covered in class will provide linguistic principles of American Sign Language at the advanced level and grammatical structures for complex sentences. ASL expressive presentations will be performed in small groups and on an individual basis. An increased focus is on the improvement of a student’s ability to express him/herself using ASL.