CAS 334 - American Sign Language (ameslan), 3 credit hours

Prerequisite(s): CAS 134
A study of sign language and fingerspelling with emphasis on receptive and expressive message clarity, comprehension of AMESLAN syntax and semantics, and facility in encoding and decoding. Some attention is given to the idiomatic aspects of sign language as used by the deaf population (1400-1500 signs).