Recent SemestersFall 2026Class Size25 studentsCredits4PrerequisiteCompletion of DFST 102. This course is designed for students to acquire communicative competency in ASL. The course promotes the shifting from com- prehension to production of ASL. With expanded vocabularies and grammatical patterns being exposed, the students continue to develop their ASL competencies in numerous conversational set- tings. The main emphasis is to bring the student'sASLfluency to a point of self-generatedASLfor the purpose of furthering language use in ASL. Deaf culture will be studied as it relates to the course. (UC, CSU,AVC) (IGETCAREA6A, CSUArea C2,AVCArea C) 178 2024-2025 AVC College Catalog Deaf Studies 