Class Overview
Practice American Sign Language (ASL) and continue to improve your skills in this engaging intermediate class! Expand your sign language vocabulary and cultural understanding to communicate more effectively.
Continue building your ASL skills learned in our Level 4 class, or comparable experience. Improve your understanding of narrative structure in ASL and movement agreement. Explore and implement more classifiers and grammar concepts in themes of clothing, making requests, and describing neighborhoods. Take a deep dive into a few advanced grammar structures, such as rhetorical questions, conjunctions, and lexicalized fingerspelling, etc.
Enjoy being part of a community of learners while improving your ASL communication skills!
Learning Objectives
- Implementing classifiers and grammar concepts such as advanced role playing, conjunctions, rhetorical questions into storytelling, which includes describing clothing, making requests, offering opinions, describing neighborhoods, and more.
- Increase your ASL vocabulary, including ASL idioms, advanced clothing descriptions, making requests and offering opinions, and more.
- Gain understanding of cultural and historical aspects of ASL and the American Deaf community.
Recommended Textbook
- If you choose to purchase a text, we recommend searching online for the best pricing. The Seattle Central College bookstore does not stock textbooks for Continuing Education classes
- In-person evening classes: Signing Naturally: Student Workbook Units 7-12 (book only) by Cheri Smith, Lentz. Ella Mae, & Ken Miko, ISBN 978-1-58121-236-5
Who Might Enjoy This Class?
- Students who have previously completed our Level 4 class or have comparable skills and experience
- Anyone with intermediate American Sign Language skills, including comfort with fingerspelling and basic signs.
Class Details
Winter 2026
- When : Wednesday, Jan 14 to Mar 18 ; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
- Location : SC0BE , SC - BE - General Cls - BE4175 , 1701 Broadway Seattle WA 98022
- Fee : $289
