12/26/2024 4:45:56 PM	ASL 1B Course Outline as of Fall 1996	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 1B	Title:  AMER SIGN LANG 1B
Full Title:  American Sign Language 1B
Last Reviewed:1/25/2021

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  ASL 51B

Catalog Description:

Continuation of ASL 1A.  Everyday communication: discussion of classes, the campus, home, work and transportation; physical descriptions of peoples and objects; general conversation skills; visual perception and spatialization skills.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ASL 1 ( or ASL 1A or ASL 51A or SE 214A)

Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of ASL 5 ( or ASL 55 or SE 217)

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Continuation of ASL 1A. Everyday communication: Discussion of classes, the campus, home, work & transportation; physical descriptions of people & objects; general conversation skills; visual perception & spatialization skills.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of ASL 1 ( or ASL 1A or ASL 51A or SE 214A)
Recommended:Course Completion of ASL 5 ( or ASL 55 or SE 217)
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1991
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Spring 2007
	6A	Language Other Than English
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1996	Spring 2007
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

The successful student will demonstrate 65% accuracy in the areas of:

1.  Conversation skills and strategies

2.  Vocabulary: use of approximately 300 signs, including appropriate

   inflections.

3.  Elementary ASL grammar

4.  ASL cultural information

Topics and Scope

  I.  Content of instructional activities include, but is not limited to

     the following:

     A.  Directions

     B.  Descriptive personal qualities and attributes

     C.  Requests

     D.  Family and occupations

     E.  Personal routines

     F.  Grammar

     G.  Deaf Culture

     H.  Cross-cultural communication

     I.  Role-shifting

     J.  History of Deaf America

     K.  Complete second half of representative text

II.  Tasks

     A. Describe people's physical appearance in detail

'     B. Describe people's personalities in detail

     C. Describe social activities

     D. Identify narrative style

     E. Use descriptive classifiers

     F. Explain/ask about locations

     G. Express uncertainty

     H. One-handed signing

     I. Ask/offer help

     J. Confirm, qualify and contradict opinions

     K. Use and understand above and below perspectives

     L. Use and understand temporal sequencing

     M. Interrupt known and unknown people

     N. Use up to 300 signs with appropriate inflections

III. Grammar

    A. Use of all basic sentence types

    B. Descriptive classifiers

    C. Contrastive structure

    D. Descriptive sentences

    E. Numbers: clock, age, counting, money and ordinals

    F. Temporal sequencing

    G. Frequency inflections

    H. Ranking family members

    I. Spatial verbs

    J. Inflecting verbs

    K. Spatial referencing

    L. One character role shifting

Assignments:

1.  Students use a Videotext and related Workbook, which contain all

   assignments. Ex: students view a conversation and answer questions

   from workbook.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 20 - 60%
Homework problems, Quizzes, Exams
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 35%
Class performances, Performance exams
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 10 - 35%
Multiple choice, True/false, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

SIGNING NATURALLY, STUDENT VIDEOTEXT AND WORKBOOK by Lentz, Mikos

and Smith. DawnSign Press, 1989. (Level one, Lessons 7-12 and review).

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