ASL& 222 American Sign Language V (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Prerequisite ASL& 221 with at least a 2.0 grade; or 4 years high school equivalent plus placement in ENGL& 101 .
Course Description
The importance of signing with sufficient grammatical accuracy and vocabulary is emphasized. Emphasis is placed on participating effectively in formal and informal conversations on familiar and unfamiliar topics. There will be many opportunities to develop a stronger acceptance and appreciation of the diverse regional aspects of ASL and expand on personal applications of the language.
Course Content
A. Core vocabulary from a variety of sources such as Signing Naturally level 2, units 14, 15, and 17
B. Functional components; complaining, making suggestions and requests, describing life events and weekend activities, and discourse structures for short narratives.
C. Cultural components; individual biographies, humor in Deaf culture, and diversity in the Deaf community.
D. Grammar components; temporal aspects, spatial agreement, transitions and continuity.
E. Sentence types: conditional, topic, relative clauses, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and conjunctions
F. Role shifting
G. Classifiers
H. Relative time
I. Receptive translations, copy signs, and narrative stories
J. Numbers; specific dates and periods of time.
Student Outcomes
1. Utilize/draw upon a vocabulary of over 500 signs related to areas of food, careers, the workplace, and the home.
2. Formulate sentences and questions using a variety of verb types and appropriate NMS and NMGM.
3. Demonstrate a solid understanding of the grammatical aspects of topicalization and spatialization, including conditional sentences, relative clauses, rhetorical questions, classifiers, and contrastive structure.
4. Integrate a broader understanding of role shifting and incorporate this skill into retelling an experience.
5. Utilize a broader breadth of numbers both receptively and expressively in dialogue and narration.
6. Produce an articulate and well-organized progression of ideas and concepts utilizing sequencing, transitions, and phrasing.
7. Experience highly fluent ASL provided by native signers. This includes at least 5 receptive translations and 2 copy-sign assignments.
8. Incorporate a variety of skills learned from the quarter while completing these 2 assignments: retell a children’s story that has a repetitive theme and descriptively translate a visual landscape scenario assignment.
9. Participate in discussions of deaf culture from literature such as Seeing Language in Sign by Jane Maher and volunteer/interact within the deaf community to broaden understanding of the culture and issues.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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