ASL 401 - Advanced American Sign Language I

This is the fifth in a sequence of courses in American Sign Language. This course focuses on advanced expressive skills, including explaining, rephrasing, demonstrating, and persuading. Grammatical principles and functions will be emphasized. Aspects of grammar that will be expanded include classifiers, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relative clauses. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. This course has a community interaction requirement of 24 hours over the semester.

Prerequisite(s): Grade of B or higher in ASL 202 or ASL 306, or equivalent, and score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 4

Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Course Type: American Sign Language