American Sign Language III

This course will enhance skills acquired from American Sign Language II Intermediate/Advanced (ASL), continue vocabulary development, and everyday phrases. Improving fluency and ASL grammar/structure, and receptive-expressive signing and fingerspelling skills will continue to be developed. Focus will be on Introductions to Classifiers, Descriptions, and Directions. You will continue to develop your knowledge of the Deaf Community, Culture and History. You will have the opportunity to communicate with members of the Deaf Community in a social environment. Prerequisite: Must have completed ASL II Intermediate/Advanced or equivalent.

Text Book: A Basic Course In American Sign Language – Tom Humphries, Carol Padden, Terrence J. O’Rourke. T-J-Publishers. ISBN-13: 978-0932666420 ISBN-10: 0932666426