This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community …
Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf …
Continues language and cultural instruction with emphasis on everyday conversation. Topics include common idioms and slang, explaining rules, discussing finances and major decisions, and storytelling techniques such as role-shifting and …
Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.
The ASL language course related to residency in the Shea Language House at UVA for students who have applied to and been accepted into the ASL Language Pod in the …
What do the Peace Corps, deaf tour guides, NGOs, and missionaries share? How have U.S. ideas shaped deaf education and sign languages in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Indonesia? Why do …
Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of …
Independent Study in American Sign Language. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission