SIGN 126 - American Sign Language II4 Credit: (4 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 4 Contact Hours: [SIGN 125 ]
This course is designed to increase students’ knowledge and use of American Sign Language vocabulary and grammar, as well as focus on specific grammatical elements for more in-depth analysis and practice. It also includes an advanced knowledge of ASL’s place in American culture.
OFFERED: spring semesters
Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies:
Goal 1: The student will demonstrate expanded knowledge of ASL components.
Objectives: The student will:
- Obtain a wider vocabulary base.
- Increase fluency of expressively reciting the manual alphabet and counting system.
- Increase fluency of receptively translating the manual alphabet and counting system.
- Demonstrate an expanded understanding and use of grammatical aspects including facial markers, quantifiers and pluralization, conjunctions, verb inflections and appropriate classifier use.
Goal 2: The student will demonstrate an advanced conversational level of ASL.
Objectives: The student will:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge in both receptive and expressive skills.
- Identify various sentence types, such as comparative, conditional and rhetorical.
- Receptively translate signed ASL sentences to proper written English form.
- Demonstrate their ability to analyze a story/paragraph using appropriate ASL concepts.
Goal 3: The student will demonstrate an advanced knowledge of ASL’s cultural context.
Objectives: The student will:
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of appropriate cultural pragmatics and metalinguistics by attending deaf functions for a minimum of 8 hours, meeting and interacting with deaf individuals via sign language.
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of basic deaf culture and history.
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