DCS 111 — American Sign Language Linguistics
presents the phonetics, morphology, semantics, and syntax of American Sign Language in contrast to English. Topics include origins of American Sign Language, basic linguistic terminology of both languages, common sentence types in both language, and features unique to American Sign Language such as spatialization, directionality, role shifting, classifiers, fingerspelled loan signs, multiple methods of negation, sign variation, and non-manual features. Prerequisites: Concurrent or prior enrollment in DCS 104 with a minimum grade of "C" and Reading Proficiency
Prerequisites: DCS 104