​FLA300   American Sign Language III
Prerequisite: American Sign Language II
In American Sign Language III students will continue developing their receptive and expressive Intermediate language skills. This course builds on skills learned in American Sign Language (ASL) I and II, adding more complex ASL grammatical features and vocabulary such as description of general surroundings, appropriate sequencing, temporal aspects and conditionals, short stories,  dialogues, narratives, grammar and advancing conversation skills previously learned. This course will include Information about the Deaf Community and Deaf Culture. Students will concentrate on understanding and acquiring more advanced conversational proficiency in ASL. This course will emphasizes the use of various kinds of ASL classifiers in the function of describing objects and in providing locative information. Analyzes Deaf culture with an emphasis on the struggles of this linguistic minority with a majority controlled educational establishment with particular attention to the effects on individual Deaf lives. This course requires Deaf community exposure and involvement.The course instruction is conducted in ASL (without using spoken English) a significant part of the time.
CREDIT: 1   TYPE: Regular   GRADE: 11-12