Overview
Description
The final course in the foundational sequence, designed to refine fluency and accuracy. Focuses on advanced narrative styles, including the use of element and locative classifiers to describe complex scenes. Students explore specialized topics like technology in the Deaf world, emergency situations, and regional sign variations.
Requirements
Prerequisites
AM 147
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): AM 147.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring and Summer
Terms
spring, summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- use complex classifier systems to provide vivid descriptions of objects and movements.
- respond to conditional statements and explain contingencies.
- personify characters within dialogues using anthropomorphism.
- produce a sustained 3–5-minute narrative in ASL that demonstrates clear cohesion, transition, and pacing.
- interpret high-intermediate ASL discourse involving various signing styles and regional accents.
- identify politically correct signs for countries and continents.
- formulate arguments regarding equity in employment and education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing populations, and critique the historical impact of educational and social policies on the Deaf community (e.g., the Milan Conference or the DPN movement).
- explain the simultaneous nature of sign languages versus linear/sequential spoken languages.