EDU 326 ASL I for Urban Educators
This course introduces students to American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf Culture through a culturally responsive, immersive learning framework. Students develop foundational expressive and receptive signing skills, visual awareness, non-manual markers, fingerspelling, and conversational structures. Through visual communication practice, Deaf history exploration, and equity-focused learning, students build confidence, cultural humility, and connection to the Deaf community.
1 Undergraduate credit
Effective May 6, 2026 to August 17, 2026
Learning outcomes
General
- Build language skills using basic ASL
- Demonstrate basic expressive and receptive ASL vocabulary
- Use fingerspelling and numbers fluently in simple contexts
- Produce and comprehend questions & topical sentence structure
- Apply facial grammar and visual-spatial signing features
- Demonstrate respectful turn-taking and Deaf communication norms