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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 206 with a grade of "B" or better, or consent of instructor Audit by consent of instructor only. Designed to assist students in improving their expressive skills and general conversational competence in ASL relative to phonology, lexical items, syntax, and discourse. Focuses on semantic appropriateness and accuracy of particular lexical items, appropriate use of non-manual behaviors, and the use of context to determine meaning. Incorporated into the class, a required language lab is designed to accelerate, reinforce, and support American Sign Language II. The lab portion of the class incorporates videotaped, functional-usage drills, and open-dialog sessions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 208 This course is a continuation of SIGN 208, American Sign Language III, with emphasis on conversational skills and intensive practice involving complex grammatical structures, dialogue and storytelling. Study of transcription techniques and their applications to ASL research and documentation.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 205 Assist students in acquiring fluent fingerspelling and numbers techniques through the use of visual and expressive drills. Videotapes of a variety of fingerspelling styles will be utilized to ensure that students acquire a comprehensive background.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 209 This course is a continuation of SIGN 209 with continued emphasis on conversational skills and intensive practice involving complex, grammatical structures, dialogue and storytelling. Non-manual signals attached to Signing are also studied.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a historic and contemporary perspective of American Deaf Culture using a sociocultural model. Topics addressed include culture identity, core values, group norms, communication, and language, as well as significant contributions made by deaf people to the world community.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 206 A practice oriented course designed to develop the foundation skills necessary for rendering spoken English to a signed English format and signed English to a spoken English format. An integral part of the course will be defining, recognizing, and incorporating features of transliteration.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 206 This course offers advanced studies in that part of the interpreting process which involves interpreting from ASL (and other forms of Signing) to spoken English. It addresses both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting methods, register, word choice, intonation and affect, and strategies for clarification and correction. Students will enhance their knowledge and skills development through a variety of text analysis activities.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 206 Concurrent enrollment: SIGN 226 Students will identify interpreting process methods and will apply these models to text analysis. Students will differentiate contextual factors affecting language usage in the interpreting process, and will begin to demonstrate an ability to produce dynamic equibalance from source language and target language.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 222 Concurrent enrollment: SIGN 227 Focus is on the enhancement of interpreting skills, while applying discourse/message analysis to increasingly complex tasks via simulated interpreting experience. Emphasizes skill analysis and peer evaluation.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SIGN 206 Concurrent enrollment: SIGN 222 Supervised practicum for the novice interpreter that involves observation in a variety of community and educational settings, including but not limited to early childhood classrooms to post"secondary classrooms, vocational rehabilitation, and platform interpreting. Classroom discussions will focus on ethical issues and proper business practices.
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