ASL& 123 American Sign Language III (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SIGN 103 - CCN
Prerequisite ASL& 122 American Sign Language II (5 credits) ASL& 122 or 2 years high school American Sign Language.
Course Description
ASL& 123 focuses on increasing expressive and receptive skills, vocabulary development, additional grammar features, and developing storytelling techniques.
Course Content
Core vocabulary including units 7 – 9 topics/functional components. including making requests and asking for advice, agreeing with conditions, describing places, giving directions, negations, directional verbs, and expanding on information.
Additional vocabulary ABC units 7- 11
More advanced beginner to low intermediate sentence structures related to making requests and asking for advice, agreeing with conditions, describing places, giving directions, negations, spatial agreement verbs, expanding on information, expressing an opinion, and discussing plans and goals.
Fingerspelling patterns and fluency: months, lexicons, and names of places (such as cities – national and world, states, provinces, and countries).
Sign Inflections: prosody (intensity and character) and aspect (including temporal and distributional).
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.
Deaf culture: topic discussions and readings from articles of interest, books and current events.
Idioms and deaf expressions
Classifiers: Eight categories including descriptive, locative, semantic, plural, instrument, element, body part, and body classifiers.
More advanced beginner to low intermediate story telling techniques using role shifting, classifiers, topic-comment, compound sentence structure, numbers, a wide variety of vocabulary, and information from ASL 121, 122, and 123.
ASL to English translations: Translate from ASL to written English while watching stories told by various native signers.
Student Outcomes
1. Participate in advanced beginner to low intermediate level conversations while utilizing a vocabulary of 1000+ signs.
2. Apply the use of conjunctions, modals, role shifting, spatial awareness, and rhetorical questions while formulating sentences, questions, and stories.
3. Engage in advanced beginner to low intermediate conversations and storytelling using ASL.
4. Demonstrate how a sign can vary in meaning depending on the context and use of sign inflections (prosody and aspect).
5. Demonstrate how to use a variety of numbers including age, money, time, the calendar, quantity of a noun, historical information, and time (o’clock) through short scenarios.
6. Develop Deaf cultural awareness through social and relational experiences.
7. Translate stories told by various Deaf individuals 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.
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
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, viewing of videos, and discussions
Receptive Translations
Signed conversations and activities such as present a children’s story to the class in small groups.
Various signing activities such as retell a story (The Hitchhiker) and a copy-sign (The Gum Story, Roadrunner, Birds on a Wire, etc.) and include role-shifting, classifiers, spatial awareness, and various sentence structures.
Quizzes on vocabulary, fingerspelling, numbers, and units
Practice log
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