GPA: 4.0
American Sign Language I: Foundational course of introductory American Sign Language within social settings. Students build expressive and receptive skills in ASL linguistics, conversational techniques, and vocabulary; encompassing introductory research of historical and contemporary themes of the Deaf community and its culture.
American Sign Language II: Development of receptive and expressive social signing skills involving advanced structured communication settings from our Signing Naturally curriculum that require the use of ASL with focus and conceptual accuracy of the language. This course will expand our continuing lessons with advanced student discourse, advanced ASL structure and vocabulary, role-shift variations and formal storytelling.
Fingerspell & Numbers: Receptive & Expressive Skill Development : Complementary course of instruction in proper practices and techniques to establish the use of manual fingerspell and numbers within American Sign Language. In addition, techniques to improve proficiency, fluency and retention of expressive and receptive skills are covered. Appropriate for beginners and advanced ASL skills.
ASL Artistic Expressions: Advancement of ASL skill level, incorporated with a continuum of an expansion of vocabulary development and linguistic techniques. Advancing focus and emphasis placed on mastering conceptual accuracy through peer presentation assignments and projects using ASL in short stories, personal narratives, ASL poetry, etc.
Storytelling: Receptive & Expressive Skill Development: Storytelling ASL is a complementary course of instruction which guides the learner through the dynamics of American Sign Language storytelling from iconic historical and contemporary personalities of the Deaf community to further advance receptive proficiency and retention. Students will use course objectives of study application of expressive fluency skills within course activities and projects.
Voice OFF: Provide students with the opportunity to develop more advanced interpersonal communication skills using American Sign Language in “voice-off” modality, as well as developing greater understanding of, and appreciation for, cultural aspects of the Deaf Community.
Deaf World through Media: Explores the Deaf World, its people and community perspective through various mainstream movie-media genres – Action, adventure, amination, biography, comedy, crime, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, musical, mystery, romance, sci-fi, sports, thriller, war and western.
Multi-Culturalism: Deaf Minorities within: Explore Deaf multicultural minorities found within the Greater Deaf community. Students choose to explore literature and media to discover a variety of issues, influences, perspectives and personal experiences of the micro-diversity amongst the following: Deaf women, Black-Deaf people, Deaf American-Indian, the Deaf-Blind community, Deaf-Oral people and Deaf people of the LGBTQ communities.