手语和聋人文化课程

course description

The course will discuss experiences and perspectives of deaf community members through vlogs, lectures, and a panel of deaf community professionals in related fields.

 

The course is conducted entirely in ASL, with no spoken English. We use written English sparingly to facilitate instruction. We find this the best way to get students using and comfortable with ASL quickly. In fact, students really end up loving and valuing this approach!

 

Upon completion of the academy, students come away with the following ASL skills:

- Sharing personal information including hometown, language background(s), and interests or hobbies;

- Discussing and describing locations within a building, giving directions within a building using perspective shift and directional vocabulary, and explaining how one gets from location to location via transportation;

- Expressing wants and needs and the ability to ask and tell where to obtain those wants and needs;

- Asking and telling about marital status, whether they have children or siblings, and the chronological ranking of children and siblings;

- Using number skills, including how to express collective group numbers, age, and time.

 

Students also gain awareness of cultural values and topics important to the deaf community in order to better understand and connect with the deaf community members in future interactions.

课程介绍

本课程将通过VLOG、讲座和相关领域的聋人社区专业人士向学生介绍一下聋哑人社会的经验和观点。该课程完全用手语而进行，并不使用口语，这是让学生快速使用并熟悉手语的最佳方式。

 

在本课程中，学生将获得以下手语技能：

- 分享个人信息，包括家乡、语言背景、兴趣或爱好的能力；

- 讨论和描述建筑位置，使用透视变换和方向词汇给出建筑方向，并解释如何用交通到达某个地方；

- 表达愿望和需求，以及告知如何获得那些需求的能力；

- 讲述婚姻状况、是否有孩子或兄弟姐妹，以及子女和兄弟姐妹的时间顺序；

- 使用数字技能，包括如何表达集体数字、年龄和时间等。

 

学生还有机会了解聋哑人社区文化价值观以及重要的话题，以便在未来的互动中更好地理解和接触聋哑人。

课程时间：7月11日-7月29日

入学资格：

- 在线申请

- GPA 3.3以上

- 个人essay

- 推荐信

- 托福

截止日期：4月1日