Rochester Community and Technical College · Courses
ASL
2 courses with the subject ASL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ASL 1107American Sign Language I (MnTC 08)3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline An introduction to the Signing Naturally Series. This course will take students who have no knowledge of Sign Language to the point where they can function comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the deaf community. Deaf culture is taught throughout the curriculum. Level I will introduce language concepts related to people, places, and things within the immediate environment. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is a continuation of ASL 1107. The course will build upon vocabulary and grammar, history of ASL and the Deaf/deaf community, and Deaf Culture aspects. The course is designed to encourage students to communicate in the target language learned in level 1 in an abstract and conceptual thought process in and out of the classroom environment. Students will learn and demonstrate the ability to converse on various topics, past, present and future. Students will also learn and demonstrate appropriate deaf culture norms (directing and maintaining attention and when communicating in ASL; keeping others informed; and following cultural conversation norms in the deaf community) College level reading and writing skills as demonstrated by appropriate RCTC placement test score or completion of appropriate developmental course(s) (
