2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook
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AM 145 - American Sign Language I


Credits: 4
Description
Designed mainly to introduce ASL and to focus on the development of basic conversational skills, emphasizing receptive skills.  Strongly recommended AM 156 taken in the same semester (concurrently).

Please note: Students MUST earn a C- or better in this course for completion of the AAS or BAS Deaf Studies.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Achieve receptive mastery of targeted, context specific commands, questions and statements by producing samples in ASL and English.
  2. Observe short dialogues in ASL; evaluate and demonstrate an understanding of the material presented.
  3. Recognize and express a targeted set of ASL vocabulary items.
  4. Demonstrate the use of conversation regulating behaviors in ASL dialogues.
  5. Recall and re-formulate short narratives, stories, etc., provided in ASL.
  6. Initiate, conduct, and terminate short context-specific conversations in ASL.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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