SIGN 101G - Introduction to American Sign Language

Credit(s): 3

Learn to communicate with the deaf using the language most widely employed by the deaf population. This course includes expressive and receptive skills in finger spelling, basic word and phrase sign, facial expression and body language, conceptual signing, and basic deaf culture. (Fall Semester)

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to

Demonstrate skills of fingerspelling and signing read finger-spelled words and signed words.
Understand deaf culture.
Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.