American Sign Language ASL201

Prerequisite: COMM-0049 American Sign Language ASL103
Building on the foundational knowledge acquired in Level 1, this course delves deeper into the rich linguistic landscape of ASL, focusing on advanced structures and communicative nuances. Students enhance their proficiency by mastering the intricacies of topic-comment structure, ordinal numbers, reference point marking for non-present objects, and the application of locative and semantic classifiers. The course also explores the temporal aspect of time signs, inflecting verbs, role shifting, and the construction of conditional sentences. Beyond linguistic elements, cultural behaviors and conversation strategies are woven into the curriculum, offering students a holistic understanding of ASL within its cultural context.