American Sign Language II allows students to continue to develop receptive and expressive skills and also allows them to expand their vocabulary and repertoire of grammatical structures. Alongside this additional language development, students continue to explore deaf culture. The course is conducted almost entirely in ASL (voice off) Students should achieve the following proficiency levels:…

American Sign Language III is a course where students continue to build their receptive and expressive skills by adding additional grammatical features such as location classifiers, quantifiers, and spatial agreement. The course is taught entirely in ASL (voice off). Students should achieve the following proficiency levels: 1) Interpersonal receptive: Intermediate Mid; 2) Interpersonal expressive: Advanced…

American Sign Language IV allows students to study ASL poetry and literature as well as Deaf history, culture, and community. This course is entirely in ASL (voice off.) Students further their sign fluency through involvement with the Deaf community. Students also explore professions which utilize ASL skills, along with laws and rights related to Americans…

Chinese I is the first course of a recommended four-year sequence designed to develop fundamental language across the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication. Students will build a basic foundation of reading, listening, speaking, and writing in modern standard Mandarin Chinese. Students will be able to communicate within a variety of everyday contexts. Students…

Chinese II is designed to develop fundamental language across the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication. Students will continue their introduction to Chinese with fundamental building blocks in reading, listening, speaking, and writing in modern standard Mandarin Chinese. Students will be able to communicate within a variety of everyday contexts. Students will have the…

Advanced Chinese II is designed to develop fundamental language across the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication. Students will continue their introduction to Chinese with fundamental building blocks in reading, listening, speaking, and writing in modern standard Mandarin Chinese. Students will have the opportunity to interact with the Chinese culture through written dialogues and…

The emphasis of Advanced Chinese III is the strengthening of the three modes of communication. The Advanced Chinese III student will read and discuss a variety of cultural and literary selections. A more sophisticated use of Chinese will be fostered through writing and conversational opportunities. Advanced Level III students are expected to reach a proficiency…

The Advanced Chinese IV course will expand on the student’s intermediate proficiency skills and language development with cultural references. Students will cultivate and demonstrate proficiency in reading through texts, fiction, and nonfiction, listening competence through formal and informal conversational exchanges, and writing proficiency through the use of descriptive, expository, and persuasive approach. At the end…