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.
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. …
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 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 …
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 …
In many ways, this course is intended to serve as a way to continue to develop and refine ASL language awareness and effectiveness. It is both a continuation of ASL …
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 …
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 …
This course will study the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries in addressing the question: What does deafness signify, especially in …