Class Overview
Practice American Sign Language (ASL) and improve your skills. During this intermediate class, expand your American Sign Language vocabulary and cultural skills in order to communicate more effectively.
Continue building upon the American Sign Language skills that you learned in our Level 2 course (or comparable level). Improve your understanding of narrative structure and movement agreement, including positions and actions. Explore role shift variations and types of classifiers in themes like incidents with the use of vehicles, dialogues about money and transactions, and explaining game rules.
Enjoy being a part of a community of learners while improving your ASL communication skills!
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion, learners should be able to understand, identify, and express:
- targeted, context-specific commands, questions, and statements in American Sign Language
- a broader base of ASL vocabulary including daily activities, physical and personality descriptions, time, age, number signs and ASL idioms
- appropriate use of ASL grammar including classifiers and spatial organization
- general historical, etymological, linguistic and cultural aspects of ASL and American Deaf community
Recommended Textbook:
- In-person evening classes: Signing Naturally: Student Workbook Units 1-6 (book only) by Cheri Smith, Lentz. Ella Mae, & Ken Miko, ASIN: 1581212100
- Online/Zoom daytime classes: Master ASL - Level One (with DVD) by Jason E. Zinza, ASIN: BOON4F390Q
- If you choose to purchase a text, we recommend searching online for the best pricing. The SCC bookstore does not stock textbooks for Continuing Education classes
Who Might Enjoy This Class?
- Students who have previously completed our Level 2 class
- Anyone with intermediate American Sign Language skills, including comfort with fingerspelling and basic signs