Summer Courses 2012





American Sign Language I

Term: 
Summer 2012
Online: 
No
Subject Area: 
LINGUISTICS (LING)
Course Number: 
LING 071 980
Schedule: 
Tuesday 4:30pm-6:30pm
Schedule: 
Thursday 4:30pm-6:30pm
Day(s): 
Tuesday
Day(s): 
Thursday
Primary Program: 
Penn Language Center
Secondary Program: 
School of Arts and Sciences
Secondary Program: 
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Course Note: 
Offered through the Penn Language Center
Course Description: 

Introduction to learning and understanding American Sign Language (ASL); cultural values and rules of behavior of the Deaf community in the United States. Includes receptive and expressive readiness activities; sign vocabulary; grammatical structure; facial expressive, body movement, gestures signs; receptive and expressive fingerspelling; and deaf culture.


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