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American Sign Language I @ Moreno Valley College is offered every semester, every winter and summer intersession. This course focuses on developing a new language acquisition along with some exposure to Deaf culture and Deaf people and their way of life.
course objective:
Focus on developing basic principles and skills of American Sign Language (ASL) through cultural appreciation and non-verbal instruction. Emphasis is placed on Deaf culture and Deaf people in history, visual training, sign vocabulary acquisition, comprehension and communicative skills development, as well as basic structural and grammatical patterns of ASL discourse at the beginning level.
course materials:
There will be an interactive Student's Workbook that will be available online. No hard copy of textbook will work with the course. There is a cost of approximately $75.
course teaching modality:
Here at Moreno Valley College, we offer this course in several modalities. You can detect the code as identified below on what modality (bold text) this course is being offered.
In-Person - Lecture/Lab - ROOM #
In-Person - Hybrid - Lecture & Lab - HYB
Online Synchnronous - REG MEET
Online Asynchronous - ONLINE
course teachers:
We have one full-time faculty and three associate faculty teaching this course. All of us are Deaf and near-native American Sign Language signers. We strongly believe that we teach this course to students to the best of our abilities and that we are sharing our love for the language with you and for you to be able to understand us and for us to be able to understand you. That's the reason for you to take this course, it's a way to communicate with the state's largest Deaf population here in the Riverside/Moreno Valley area!
Additional courses will be added if there is a high demand for ASL I. If there is a waitlist for an online course with more than 10 students, a new section will be added in the same modality. This applies the same to any other modalities.
Prof. Jennifer Willey, full-time faculty
Prof. Kendra Rose, associate faculty
Prof. April Getten (Bernal), associate faculty
course schedules:
We have three different lengths of study here at MVC. The semester offers 16 weeks and 8 weeks schedule. The intersessions are always 6 weeks. If you are wanting to decide how long you'd study this language, please take the time to explore the course schedules below:
"As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people."
~ George Veditz
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