ASL& 221 American Sign Language IV (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SIGN 201 - CCN
Prerequisite ASL& 123 , with a grade of 2.0 or better; or 3 years high school equivalent.
Course Description
Emphasis is placed on receptive and expressive skill development and ASL fluency. Attention is given to the correct formation of signs, movement, rhythm, phrasing and clarity. This course includes intensive vocabulary building, a deeper understanding of ASL expressions, and proficiency in ASL grammar.
Course Content
A. Core vocabulary from a variety of sources such as Signing Naturally units 10 – 12 topics/functional components including giving opinions, personal qualities, asking for opinions, making and cancelling plans, discussing personal goals and expanding on information.
B. Additional vocabulary ABC units 12 - 15
C. Sign Inflections: prosody (intensity and character) and aspect (including temporal and distributional).
D. Sentence types: conditional, topic, relative clauses, rhetorical questions, and conjunctions.
E. Language Usage: Role shifting with more than two people, fingerspelling patterns and fluency, and more advanced use of classifiers, idioms and ASL expressions
F. Numbers: 1 – 1,000,000 in context: money/prices, age of things, year and time concepts, patterns such as phone and ID numbers, and other concepts.
G. Deaf culture: topic discussions and readings from articles of interest, books, and current events.
H. More advanced story telling techniques: visual landscaping scenario, retell a variety of life experiences, sequencing events, and transitions.
I. ASL experience in various forms of discourse: poetry, songs, stories, and information
J. ASL to English translations: Translate from ASL to written English while watching stories told by various native signers.
Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate receptively and expressively the ability to utilize a vocabulary of 1000 + signs to construct and participate in intermediate level conversations.
2. Create a variety of cohesive stories on various topics while engaging in intermediate use of the language.
3. Engage in complex conversations using ASL.
4. Construct and demonstrate examples of how a sign can vary in meaning depending on the context and use of sign inflections.
5. Interact in more complex conversations related to deaf culture.
6. Develop deeper cultural awareness through research on various topics that are within the scope of the content of this course and provide information using ASL.
7. Translate from ASL to English while noticing the smaller details and subtleties of non-manual-signals (NMS).
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
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