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Undergraduate ASL Spring 2024 Courses

ASL 101 American Sign Language I (Distance)
T his three-credit course is a basic introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) for students with no previous knowledge. Students will be introduced to the language functions/features of mastering the ASL grammar at a basic expressive and receptive level for functional communication purposes. An introduction to cultural and historical aspects of ASL and the Deaf Community is also included.

ASL 102 American Sign Language II (2 sections)
This three-credit course is a continuation of ASL 101. Further study of the language with more emphasis on receptive and expressive conversational skills. Includes readings of research studies relevant to lectures.

ASL 201 American Sign Language III (3 sections)
This course is designed to build on and apply ASL conversational skills and cultural behaviors acquired from previous courses, ASL 101 and ASL 102 to a functional level that includes new expanded conversational and narrative skills using both concrete and abstract concepts. The course incorporates interactive activities, which will encourage a natural language environment using the target language, ASL by giving students situations, which allow them to concrete on the purpose rather than the mechanics of the conversation.

ASL 202 American Sign Language IV (2 sections)
This course is a continuation of ASL 201. Includes some introduction to linguistic structure, especially depicting verbs (classifier handshapes), temporal sequencing and aspect, and conversational regulators. Continued emphasis on cultural and historical aspects in relation to the evolution of language and language usage.

ASL 280  American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society
The linguistic, cultural, and societal context of the deaf community in America. Both historical and contemporary aspects of deaf identity will be included, with an emphasis on the central role that ASL plays in the lives of deaf individuals.

ASL 302 American Sign Language VI  (1 section)
This course is a sequential course in the advanced study of American Sign Language (ASL) with emphasis on basic concepts of language based ASL. This is an application of language usage in ASL in which students will gain an advanced understanding and mastery of ASL grammar. Includes instruction in semantic and grammatical accuracy and appropriate discourse strategies in a variety of communication contexts. Students utilize advanced receptive and expressive skills.
3.000 Credit hours  

ASL 362 The Structure of ASL II: Syntax, Semantics and Language Use  (1 section)
This course introduces students who already have prior knowledge of linguistics (e.g., phonetics, phonology, and morphology) to three areas of study in linguistics: Syntax, Semantics, and language use. Linguistic study of ASL, including the following: Syntax includes units on basic sentence types, lexical categories, word order, time and aspect, verbs, and the function of the spaces. Semantics includes the meanings of individual signs and sentences. Language in Use includes Black ASL, Variation and Historical Change. Bilingualism and language acquisition will be also covered. ASL Discourse has the ways that signed conversations among deaf people differ from speaking conversation of hearing people, why these differences exist, and why they are culturally important. Knowledge of ASL is required.
3.000 Credit hours

ASL 390 Undergraduate Research In ASL (3 sections)
This course is designed to allow for the investigation of topics related to the linguistic structure of ASL, populations of ASL language learners, and sub-populations of the Deaf Community at the undergraduate level. Permission of instructor required.

 

Non-Credit Professional Courses in ASL and Deaf Culture

Learn foundational skills in American Sign Language (ASL) to become a more effective and expressive ASL communicator with Purdue’s online ASL Certificate courses! The ASL 1 & ASL 2 courses provide a basic introduction for students with no previous knowledge of the language, and the American Deaf Culture (ADC) course is taught and English and can be taken at the same time as or separately from the ASL language courses. For more information: