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Aug 05, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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ASL 205 ASL Conversation and Discourse Skill Development Credits: (3)
This course is designed to further develop students’ intermediate receptive and expressive conversation skills in American Sign Language. The main emphasis of course content and activities is to promote the expansion and flow of communication exchanges across a greater range of situations and topics within an authentic cultural context. In doing so, students will build their ASL vocabulary and improve their use of nonmanual signals and depictive components of ASL discourse. Prerequisite(s): ASL 202 or permission of instructor.
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Expand receptive and expressive mastery of targeted sets of semantically correct vocabulary and numbers presented within conversational and presentational discourse formats.
- Apply targeted sets of ASL discourse structures and grammar features, such as nonmanual signals, depiction techniques, explicitations, and conversational behaviors within conversational and presentational discourse formats.
- Demonstrate increased conversational fluency and mastery with context-specific conversations, narratives and presentations in ASL.
- Discuss and express opinions about various current and/or controversial issues within or beyond the Deaf culture and Deaf community with sufficient accuracy to be understood by a native user.
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