13 courses with the subject ASLS, 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.
Introduction to American Sign Language (ASL), a visual/gestural language used by the Deaf Community. Course covers sign vocabulary, sentence structures, dialogue formats through facial expressions and body movements used in signing. 3C/3/0/0
A continuation of ASLS 1411 , designed to expand students’ conversational range from talking about themselves to talking about other people and activities, giving directions, describing people and making requests. 3C/3/0/0
A continuation of ASLS 1412 , designed to expand students’ comprehension and sign language production skills. Through meaningful communication contexts, students will use communicative functions which include locating things, asking for solutions, discussing life events and describing objects. Use of appropriate cultural behaviors and strategies for conversational management is stressed. Receptive and expressive fingerspelling and information about the deaf community will further enhance the learning process. 3C/3/0/0
A continuation of ASLS 1413 provides more complex ASL grammatical features, communicative functions and receptive fingerspelling and numbers. Cultural features will be stressed to develop competency and fluency in the language. 3C/3/0/0
This course is an ongoing instruction of American Sign Language covering communicative functions, sign vocabulary, fingerspelling, grammar and cultural aspects of the Deaf Community. At the completion of ASL 5, each student shall be able to use these language functions and conversational behaviors appropriately in ASL. 3C/3/0/0
Introduces students to the linguistics of American Sign Language (ASL). Students study the major features of language structures and the underlying knowledge for the social uses of American Sign Language. Content includes an examination of the structure of the physical signals of ASL, the customary patterns for combining them and the influence of signs on one another in connected discourse. 4C/4/0/0
Introduces students to the fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL) classifiers. Students will enhance and expand the use of classifiers in their expressive skills and the recognition of classifiers in their receptive skills. 3C/3/0/0
This course is designed to help students understand and appreciate Deaf Culture and the Deaf Community. Deaf history, historical and modern-day perspectives, deafness and its impact, Deaf Culture/Community characteristics, education, communication modes/languages used by deaf people and the ramifications and impact of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture upon the lives of D/deaf people and other populations will be introduced. 3C/3/0/0
This course introduces the fundamentals of fingerspelling, lexicalized fingerspelling and the complex rules and patterns of ASL number systems. This course also develops expressive and receptive fingerspelling and number skills. Receptive skills focus on whole-word recognition distinction among different number systems, phrase recognition, and identification of fingerspelled words and numbers in context. Expressive skills focus on the development of speed, clarity, and fluency. 3C/3/0/0
This course covers the non-manual aspect of the language. The use of the face, eyes and head to convey grammatical information will be covered. Students will analyze specific features. Other topics include ASL ‘mouthing’, showing emotion and inappropriate facial behaviors. 2C/2/0/0
This course is designed to expand students’ sign vocabulary by analyzing multiple-meaning words and various sign equivalents. Language learning activities will focus on noun-verbs, sentence types, classifiers, inflection of verbs with temporal aspect and distributional aspect. 3C/3/0/0
Covers the history of deaf people in Minnesota and its impact upon deaf and non-deaf Minnesotans. 2C/2/0/0
Variable Credits This course is designed to give students practical experience in teaching ASL at the college level. Students will demonstrate various teaching methods including use of E-learning technologies. Students will also learn to provide effective feedback provided to learners. 3C/3/0/0
Source: Saint Paul College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
