American Sign Language I In this course students will be introduced to American Sign Language (ASL). This course is intended for students who have little or no previous knowledge of ASL. Students will have an opportunity to learn social functions with respect to introducing themselves, exchanging personal information, describing simple narratives, and they will develop beginning conversational skills based on ASL vocabulary and grammatical rules. The fundamentals of the Deaf Culture will be examined through classroom demonstration and readings.

John Pirone

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Although the entire course was in ASL, the professor did a great job communicating to a class that was entirely new to this language. He was also incredibly funny and a great story teller all while communicating in sign language. Most of the assignments were submitting videos of you doing sign language. 

I really enjoyed this class. It is fast paced because its during j term but its mostly just chill online work, taking videos, things like that. I learned more than I thought and really enjoyed the professor. 

A very valuable life experience having a deaf professor. There were a lot of quizzes and worksheets to do on canvas and I did a little worse than I thought but regardless full immersion is always a fun time. 