ASL& 122 American Sign Language II (5 credits)

2. Create and demonstrate sentences or questions using cardinal numbers 1–50,000 in context, time, o’clock, money, phone numbers, years, age, miles, MPH, how often, nouns plural, and quantity. 

3. Construct and retell basic stories using ranking and sequencing, role-shifting, topic-comment, OSV (object-subject-verb) and SVO (subject-verb-object), and rhetorical questions.

4. Apply and demonstrate the appropriate NMGM and NMS (non-manual grammar markers and non-manual signals) while formulating various types of sentence structures, such as rhetorical questions, and using topic-comment (T-C) statements.

5. Formulate sentences and questions demonstrating the appropriate use of plain, inflecting, and directional verbs.

6. Examine and summarize basic information including name signs, audism, negotiating a deaf environment, asking for repetition, looking at unbiased hiring, and identifying well-known names in the deaf community such as Clayton Valli, and other topics that are within the scope of the content of this course.

7. Practice and broaden use of classifiers while including Pronominal, Locative, Semantic, Perimeter, and Size and Shape Specifiers to show action, placement, movement and/or appearance of the noun. 

8. Utilize various grammatical structures to include elements to tell a cohesive story, and maintain spatial agreement in order to tell a personal experience story and present to class.

9. Create and demonstrate using a calendar, including talking about activities with others, including the day of the week, which week (up to 3 weeks in the past or future), and the activity. 

10. Interpret and translate from ASL to written English while watching stories told by various native signers.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. 

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50