American Sign Language Level 7B

Course code ASLD 1215

Credit 4.0

Length 70.0 hours

Course outline View

In this course, designed to be a bridge between ASLD 1200 and ASLD 2180, students will continue to develop their abilities to produce ASL narratives that are cohesive and that make visual sense. Students will practice using 3D referential space, topic-comment syntactical structure, constructed action, constructed dialogue and contextualization. They will develop their receptive and expressive ASL skills through a variety of activities including dialogue drills, scripted exchanges, conversational activities and video exercises. ASL grammar features explored in this course will include topicalization and time/tense marking. Students will learn ASL vocabulary related to money, decision-making, health and medical conditions.

Prerequisites

ASLD 1200 or equivalent.

What you will learn

  • 1) Sharing Interesting Facts
  • 2) Explaining Rules and procedures
  • 3) Talking about Money
  • 4) Making Major Decisions
  • 5) Discussing Health and Medical Conditions
  • 6) Storytelling

How to register

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

Course schedules

Select your program to see the available course schedules.

Contact us

If you have any questions, please email at [email protected].

Additional information

Assessment of ASL skills

† 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.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.