ASL& 122 American Sign Language II (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SIGN 102 - CCN
Prerequisite ASL& 121 with at least a 2.0 grade; or 1 year high school equivalent.
Course Description
In ASL& 122, students will continue developing their sign skills while building on vocabulary, enhancing number skills, learning more about classifiers, increasing fluency and incorporating non-manual grammatical markers and non-manual signals with more ease. They will be introduced to basic story telling using these new skills and techniques as well as learn more about deaf culture and grammar.
Course Content
Core vocabulary including unit 4 - 7 topics
More advanced numbers
More advanced sentence structures
Deaf culture topics that are within the scope of the content of this course
Deaf culture strategies: Asking for a sign, greeting and leave takings, and minimizing interruptions (sorry late)
Classifiers: Utilize - CL: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (bent), CL: A, B(B), C(C), F, G, L(bent), and V(bent)
Basic story telling techniques
ASL to English translation
Calendar
Student Outcomes
- Share personal reactions to a variety of familiar contexts in their environment.
- Discuss thoughts, agreements and disagreements.
- Ask and respond to questions to clarify understanding of conversational content.
- Identify the difference between formal and lexicalized fingerspelling.
- Respond to basic personal and social questions.
- Identify the main characters and events in ASL narratives.
- Express short narratives.
- Explore regional variations in ASL across the United States to develop clarifying strategies in conversation.
- Present the basic types of ASL classifiers.
- Negotiate signing environment and apply Deaf Culture strategies.
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
Potential Methods
Group activities and participation
Instructor observation
Deaf culture readings and discussions
Signed conversations such as present a true story to the class.
Various signing activities such as a copy-sign (True Fish Story, The Candy Bar Story, or The Gum Story) and include role-shifting, classifiers, spatial awareness, and various sentence structures.
Vocabulary and unit quizzes
Practice log
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