Further emphasis on more abstract and challenging conversational and narrative ranges. Explores broader political and social activities of international deaf community.
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Expanded Course Description
ASL 203 increases the emphasis on more abstract and challenging conversational and narrative ranges. This course satisfies the UO group requirement in Arts and Letters. The completion of this sequence (ASL 203) is one means of satisfying the UO BA language requirement. At this advanced level, students will be able to link ideas, manipulate time and aspect and use high- and low-context conversational strategies. Student will b exposed to historical perspectives; story-telling- methodologies of interpretation; text analysis and applications of signed languages in the modern age. Students will be required to submit opinions on bilingualism identities within the Deaf and hearing communities of the United States. Methodical vocabulary building strategies and appropriate language forms of expression within specialized communities will be explored. Professional utility of ASL in a wide variety of fields (medicine; education; law; social work; linguistics; neuroscience, etc.) will be discussed at length. Conversational practice in lab and assigned readings cover broader political and social activities of International Deaf community in relation to the American Deaf community.
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