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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
(ASL)

1013 American Sign Language: Basic I
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of American Sign Language, including basic concepts and sign lexicon. Grammatical features, including structure of American Sign Language, will be stressed. Each student will be expected to demonstrate to the instructor basic expressive and receptive ASL skills. [TCCN: SGNL 1301.]

1023 American Sign Language: Basic II
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: ASL 1013 or consent of instructor.
Continued study of American Sign Language including sign language colloquialisms used in conversational signing. Expands students' receptive and expressive ASL skills and provides a summary of information currently available dealing with ASL grammatical structure and its sociolinguistic and pragmatic usage. [TCCN: SGNL 1302.]

2013 American Sign Language: Intermediate I
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: ASL 1013 and ASL 1023, or consent of instructor.
This course is designed to help students improve their expressive, receptive, and general conversational ASL proficiency, particularly in morphology, semantics, syntax, and lexicon. Students will demonstrate their use of ASL for interactive purposes. [TCCN: SGNL 2301.]

2023 American Sign Language: Intermediate II
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: ASL 1013, ASL 1023, and ASL 2013, or consent of instructor.
This course is designed to further extend students' use of ASL skills for communicating with persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Expands accuracy in using expressive and receptive skills. Students will encode and decode ASL forms related to a variety of topics and situations. [TCCN: SGNL 2302.]

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