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0.00 Credits
0 credit hours Academic Study Hall is designed to help students transition to the academic rigors of college by providing a daily, quiet, structured period devoted to study in the University Library. Academic Study Hall is available to any student who desires academic accountability. Students admitted on provisional acceptance must enroll is this program for each semester they remain on probation.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit hour (Fall and Spring) This course is designed to help students in their academic adjustment from high school to college. The student will be introduced to essential academic skills such as goal-setting, study organization, time management, textbook mastery, listening, memory, note-taking, motivation for study, test-taking, study strategies in other classes and orientation to University services. All incoming first-time freshmen, any transfer student with less than thirty hours of transfer credits and any student admitted on provisional acceptance or academic probation must enroll in this program for one semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Fall Only) An introduction to American Sign Language and the deaf community. Instruction is given on the basic skills needed in the production and comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL). Course work includes the manual alphabet, numbers, basic sentence structure, conversational skills, culturally appropriate behaviors, and ASL Grammar. Students learn the importance of facial expression and body language as grammatical indicators. Students also learn the importance of conceptually accurate signs. Initial emphasis is given to receptive language skills. Students are introduced to the American deaf culture and participate in deaf community events. This class is taught using spoken English and American Sign Language.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Spring Only) (Prerequisite: AMSL 1013) Continued study of American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community. Instruction is given on additional types of sentence and discourse structure. The course includes continued development of expressive and receptive skills while conversational signing skills are emphasized through interactive exercises. The course considers relevant issues within the American deaf culture and includes participation in deaf community events. This class is taught exclusively in ASL without voice.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit hour each (Fall and Spring) (Prerequisite: AMSL 1013) This course introduces the art of interpretation of aesthetic musical texts. The emphasis is on incorporating the rhythm, fluidity, and beauty of American Sign Language production without sacrificing conceptual accuracy or clarity. (Any combination of Hands of Praise and/or Signs of Glory can be taken up to 2 times for credit.)
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Fall Only) (Prerequisite: AMSL 1023) An intermediate study of American Sign Language and the Deaf community. The course is designed to improve the student's expressive and receptive signing skills with focus on expressive skills. It provides students with additional ASL vocabulary and idiomatic/colloquial expressions. It provides instruction on ASL usage as well as grammatical structures for complex sentences emphasizing semantic accuracy and discourse strategies. Special focus is given to the use of classifiers, non-manual signals, and use of space. It includes instruction on self and peer analysis. Students are required to participate in deaf community events. The class is taught exclusively in ASL without voice.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Spring Only) (Prerequisite: AMSL 2013) A continued intermediate study of American Sign Language and the Deaf community. The instruction of American Sign Language vocabulary and idiomatic/colloquial usage of signs is continued. It also continues instruction on fluency of ASL expressive skills through a variety of exercises, but shifts it attention to improving a students receptive skills. It includes further and more advanced instruction on self and peer analysis. Students are required to participate in deaf community events. The class is taught exclusively in ASL without voice.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Fall Odd Years) An introduction to American Deaf culture. This course studies the types and causes of deafness and its effect on the individual and family. It considers cultural identity, core values, group norms, organizations, and significant contributions made by deaf people to the world. It also considers historical and contemporary perspectives of language, education, legislation, and social and political aspects of deaf people. This is done from an anthropological and socio-cultural point of view analyzing the similarities and differences to collectivistic and individualistic cultures worldwide.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours (Spring only) A study in establishing and/or administering a deaf ministry in a local church in the United States or on the mission field. The class will discuss the various types of deaf ministry as it relates to Interpreting Ministry, Deaf Ministry, and Deaf Church. Class content will include deaf visitation, deaf evangelism, deaf children and youth programs, deaf camp, sign language programs (plays, concerts, etc.) and sign language choirs. The students will also consider several mission boards that are involved in deaf ministry.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit hour (Summers As Needed) Students will participate in a cross-cultural experience working with the deaf. Students will prepare a detailed summary of the experience.
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