MSU Billings Catalog

SIGN - Languages: Sign

SIGN 101 Intro to American Sign Lang. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Provides students with the ability to sign as well as understand a deaf person with basic questions, statements, and commands in American Sign Language (ASL). Upon successful course completion, the student can have simple conversations with a client and be able to assist them with filling out forms. This does not replace the need for an interpreter, but would allow the counselor or receptionist to have a conversation with the client in order to make an appointment or to fill out the initial paperwork.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: Modern Languages

SIGN 201 Intermediate Am Sign Lan. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): SIGN 101.

Provides students with additional skills in American Sign Language vocabulary and grammar, building on a foundation learned in SIGN 101. Skills learned in SIGN 201 can be used to complete an initial interview with a deaf client. Students will also learn more about deaf culture and will meet the Billings deaf community in order to practice what is learned in the course.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: Modern Languages