MLL 331 - Advanced American Sign Language I

Units: 4
Expanded student discourse, advanced ASL structure and vocabulary, role-shifting variations, formal storytelling, text analysis, and formal/informal presentations. Deaf culture aspects will be incorporated into class activities as appropriate.

Prerequisites: MLL 232.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Work with narratives to develop essential skills for successful storytelling.
Deepen communicative competence in ASL by applying language in more abstract contexts.
Explain and provide factual information.
Interpret written information into ASL using appropriate grammatical structure.
Explain rules of everyday life as well as games.
Provide clear instructions or explanations using classifiers, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions and relative clauses.
Learn the uses of narrative factors: classifiers, facial grammar (facial expression and non- manual markers), spatial agreement, and role-shifting.
Tell about accidents on horses, bicycles or automobiles.