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 121American Sign Language1
This is a beginning course in American Sign Language and will provide students with the basic skills and knowledge of the language as used within the American Deaf Community. It will introduce a set of targeted lexical items, combined eye, face and body readiness activities, fingerspelling, conceptualization, and the grammar and syntax of American Sign Language. Receptive skills (reading of signs and fingerspelling) and expressive skills (signing and fingerspelling a person’s own thoughts) are also emphasized as are an introduction to Deaf Culture and the Deaf Community. Prerequisite: None. 3 cr. 3 lec. This course fulfills the following SUNY General Education learning outcome: Foreign Language, or World Languages
American Sign Language 2 is the second in a series of related courses and will continue in depth the study of manual communication techniques, fingerspelling, vocabulary (lexicon), conceptualization, topicalization, and the grammar and syntax of American Sign Language. Receptive skills (reading of signs and fingerspelling) and expressive skills (signing and fingerspelling a person’s own thoughts) are also emphasized, as is a more in-depth study and exposure to Deaf Culture and the Deaf Community. Prerequisite: ASL 121. 3 cr. 3 lec. This course fulfills the following SUNY General Education learning outcome: Foreign Language, or World Languages s ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT)
