American Sign Language Through Culture II

Grow Your ASL Fluency and Community Connection: Build on your foundation in American Sign Language (ASL) and move from basic exchanges to richer, more natural conversation. You’ll expand your vocabulary, strengthen your use of classifiers and spatial grammar, and sharpen your receptive skills so you can follow signed stories, narratives, and dialogue at a conversational pace. Deaf culture stays at the heart of the course as you explore Deaf art, literature, history, and community life. You’ll learn how the Deaf community has shaped its own identity and led the way in advocating for access and recognition. Through storytelling, video conversations, and cultural projects, you’ll grow into a more confident and culturally aware signer.

Why Take This Course? This course takes your expressive and receptive skills to the next level while deepening your connection to the Deaf community and its culture. You’ll hold sustained conversations in ASL and be ready to take part in Deaf and signing spaces as a thoughtful, respectful member of the ASL community.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of American Sign Language Through Culture I or permission from the instructor.

Language Placement: Students who are taking American Sign Language Through Culture I or II will be asked to complete a short form to confirm their appropriate placement in their GOA Language course. The form will be sent automatically upon enrollment.

This is a yearlong course.

Students in GOA courses will need reliable access to a computer with webcam/microphone connections, an email address (preferably school-based), a Web-conferencing app (GOA courses use Zoom), and a Word processing app (GOA courses use Google’s G Suite). When necessary, alternative arrangements may be made. Some courses require additional materials which can be found in the Course Outline. 

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