ASL 1122 American Sign Language II

Description

American Sign Language II continues to teach basic ASL, grammatical structure, fingerspelling and numbers, conversational strategies and Deaf history and culture. ASL Levels one-four are designed for students interested in becoming certified sign language interpreters.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ASL 1121

Corequisite

None

Topics to be Covered

1. Giving Directions

2. Describing others

3. Making Requests

4. Talking about family and occupations

5. Attributing qualities to others

6. Talking about routines

Learning Outcomes

1. Use manual markers, eye gaze, facial expressions, and negation skills

2. Sign with accuracy and clarity

3. Increase signing speed and fingerspell at intermediate conversational mode to other signers

4. Demonstrate principles of appropriate cultural norms, practices, and products in formal and informal settings.

5. Recite major events in Deaf history that have profound influence on Deaf cultural values

6. Respond to commands

7. Express the visualization of objects

8. Identify eye markers what sentence type was being said or asked

9. Examine and discuss the similarities and differences of inflections, verb types, roles shifting, communication strategies, and schooling with one’s own language and culture.

Credit Details

Lecture: 3

Lab: 0

OJT: 0

MnTC Goal Area(s): None