Spring 2027

American Sign Language 4

Upper intermediate American Sign Language course focusing on vocabulary expansion, grammatical accuracy, complex structures like classifiers, and Deaf cultural topics.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Justin Vollmar3.8/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize and produce vocabulary items in each content unit.

  • Comprehend content-specific commands, questions, and statements in ASL.

  • Identify grammatical features within dialogues in ASL.

  • Demonstrate comprehension and production of regulating behaviors in ASL (i.e. attention-getting techniques, turn-taking signals, and others).

  • Comprehend narratives and stories in ASL.

  • Initiate, conduct, and terminate content-specific conversations.

  • Analyze and critique competing perspectives of diverse Deaf communities in the United States and Canada, ideas, aesthetic traditions, and cultural practices, and their history.

  • Compare, contrast, and interpret differences and commonalities among Deaf and hearing cultures.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LINGUIS 353

LINGUIS 354

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Raw average: 4.50/5 from 4 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JUSTIN VOLLMAR is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • ASL vocabulary and grammar.
  • Complex ASL structures: classifiers, role shifting, spatial referencing.
  • Deaf identity, community, and current issues.
  • Comparison of Deaf and hearing cultures.

Skills

  • Expanding ASL vocabulary and improving grammatical accuracy.
  • Using complex ASL structures including classifiers, role shifting, and spatial referencing.
  • Analyzing Deaf identity, community, and cultural practices.
  • Conducting content-specific conversations in ASL.

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UW–Madison

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LINGUIS 354 · Spring 2027

American Sign Language 4

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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