AMS 21 - Advanced American Sign Language

Institution:

Bristol Community College

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Description:

IThis course further develops and refines the American Sign Language receptive and expressive skills and visual-gestural skills acquired in AMS 01 - AMS 12 to ensure discourse competency. This course builds the student's lexical base to include sign variations found across regions, ethnicities and generations. The course introduces formal and informal narrative styles. Students engage in a more intense study of the non-manual, linguistic features found in ASL as well as more sophisticated communication and narration, in general. This course is conducted entirely in ASL. Students are required to engage in ASL or Deaf cultural events as part of this course. Prerequisite: AMS 12 with a "C" or better. Three class hours and two lab hours per we ek.4 credits Fal

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

bristolcc.edu/

Phone Number:

(508) 678-2811

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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