Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 6A · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionIntermediate course with continued development of American Sign Language vocabulary, grammar, and beginning conversational; fluency with special emphasis on idiomatic constructions. Further development of conversational techniques focusing on receptive and expressive skills. Expanded study of Deaf cultural issues. (Overview of topics include: language functions, such as, giving reasons, making requests, asking where, giving specific directions, correcting and confirming information, complaining, making suggestions, asking for permission, expressing concern, declining/explaining, asking for/ giving definitions, describing objects, describing weekend activities, telling about disrupted plans; grammatical structures, such as, topic-comment, weak hand referencing, locatives, temporal aspect modulations, verb inflections, role shifting, conditional sentences, contrastive structure, classifier types, non-manual markers, number functions; and discourse structures, such as, presenting informative speeches using ASL). 