Transfers ToCSUDescriptionDEAF 353 Baby Sign Language Units: 3 Hours: 54 hours LEC Prerequisite: None. Transferable: CSU This course focuses on Baby Sign Language vocabulary, alphabet, handshape, movement, palm orientation, structure,and grammar. Students will learn core vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar in ASL to understand its structure. Students will also be introduced to the history of the Deaf community and its culture, as well as be exposed to community resources for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing populations. This course was formerly known as SILA 338. Deaf Culture and American Sign Language Studies 271 COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE 2025-2026 Official Catalog DEAF 354 Creative Signs Units: 3 Hours: 54 hours LEC Prerequisite: DEAF 314 or communicating at a level of preliminary American Sign Language syntactical and lexical skills that are equivalent to the completion of DEAF 314. Transferable: CSU Introduction to the techniques of facial expression, characterization, body movement, and specialization as it relates to American Sign Language. Development of expressive sign language skills through the use of poetry, songs, skits, storytelling, jokes and slang signs. 