American Sign Language Level 10

This intensive course is designed for advanced ASL students to continue increasing their ASL vocabulary and proficiency. Students will have many opportunities to practice using ASL and to continuously incorporate feedback from native ASL users, classmates and oneself. This course will also explore the difference in how English and ASL convey concepts in different settings (education, medical, community, etc). This course is required for students in the Sign Language Interpretation program.

Prerequisites

ASLD 2290 or Assessment.

What you will learn

• Sentence structures, vocabulary and narrative techniques:
  - Non-manual markers made with the mouth
  - Facial grammar and emotive affect, including humour
  - Constructed dialogue and constructed action, and accompanying eye gaze
  - Time/tense markers and use of timelines
  
  Building ASL vocabulary in specific settings:
  - Health/medical – talking about health and basic medical concerns/experiences
  - Educational – talking about school and university/college
  - Math – continuing to expand fluency in ASL number depictions
  - Community – talking about current and local events, organizations, places and issues
  
  Increasing adaptability to diverse ASL users:
  - Language use across the ASL-Contact-English continuum
  - Variations due to demographics (age, background, geographical area)
  
  Making clear visual sense:
  - Topicalization and contextualization
  - Consistency in use of referential space Level of visual detail
  - Discourse markers, cohesion, prosody
  - Overall meaning and intent, including humour

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.