DCS 116 - American Sign Language Semantics3

Institution:

Saint Louis Community College-Meramec

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Description:

This course is designed to expand student's knowledge, recognition, and understanding of American Sign Language semantic units. Focus will be on interpreting and translating ASL idiomatic expressions into equivalent English meaning and usage; developing a recognition of cultural variations of sentence types, time, pronominalization, subjects and objects, classifiers, locatives, pluralization and temporal and distributional aspects. Emphasis will be on cross-cultural influences on language usage and thought. Prerequisites: DCS:104 and DCS: 115 with grades of "C" or better and Reading Proficiency.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stlcc.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 984-7500

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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