4/23/2024 6:15:35 PM	ASL 2B Course Outline as of Fall 1996	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 2B	Title:  AMER SIGN LANG 2B
Full Title:  American Sign Language 2B
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		17 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 52B

Catalog Description:

Continuation of ASL 2A.  Conversation and narration skills: describing and identifying things; describing problems at home, work and school; expressing opinions and feelings; describing disrupted plans.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ASL 3 ( or ASL 2A or ASL 52A or SE 214C)

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

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Continuation of ASL 2A. Conversation & narration skills: describing & identifying things; describing problems at home, work & school; expressing opinions and feelings; describing disrupted plans.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of ASL 3 ( or ASL 2A or ASL 52A or SE 214C)
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:	Spring 1992	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Spring 1992
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1996
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1992	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1992	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 students will learn:

1.  Language functions.

     A. Asking what a word means.

     B. Giving definitions of words.

     C. Describing objects.

     D. Asking about weekend plans/activities.

     E. Describing weekend plans/activities.

     F. Expressing opinions and feelings.

     G. Telling about disrupted plans.

     H. Directing and maintaining attention.

     I. Controlling the pace of conversation.

     J. Resuming conversation after an interruption.

     K. Responding to new information.

2.  Grammar.

     A. Descriptive classifiers for shapes, patterns, and textures.

     B. Instrument classifiers.

     C. Weak hand as reference.

     D. Topic/comment structure.

     E. Non-manual markers.

     F. Money numbers.

     G. Temporal sequencing.

     H. Time signs with durative aspect.

     I. Element classifiers.

     J. Numbers 120-1,000.

     K. Confirming questions.

     L. Locative classifiers.

3.  Vocabulary.

     A. Approximately 200 signs, appropriate to the topics introduced.

4.  Cultural information.

     A. Deafness in the family; causes of deafness and how it's

        discussed politely.

     B. Eye-gaze used to hold one's place in the conversation;

        turn-taking skills.

     C. Directing one's attention to something; getting everyone in

        the room's attention.

     D. Gettin attention from outside of group.

     E. How deaf people communicate with non-signers.

     F. Telling someone's name when you're not sure how it's spelled.

Topics and Scope

1.  Content.

     A. Grammatical forms necessary for discussion of functions

        taught.

     B. Vocabulary necessary for discussion of functions.

     C. Cultural information.

     D. Conversational strategies.

     E. Narration skills.

2.  Topics.

     A. Food and cooking descriptive signs; giving cooking directions.

     B. Tools, toys and appliances.

     C. Symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes (3 dimensional).

     D. Defining something by how it is made; by what it looks like.

     E. Verbal inflections to indicate frequency of occurance.

     F. Seasons of the year; seasonal activities.

     G. Feelings about activities.

     H. Disruptions and disasters: household problems (flooding,

        electrical black outs, hourse broken into, etc.), car

        problems, personal problems, job problems.

     I. Listing techniques for indicating preferences.

     J. Sight-seeing and descriptions of Bay Area landmarks.

     K. Recommending places to visit while traveling.

     L. Complex classifiers for describing different kinds of air

        quality, wind, smoke, running water, rain, snow, fire, lights

        and lamps.

3.  Scope.

     A. Carrying on the kind of conversation friend might have.

     B. Narrating stories, including exclaiming over disasters.

     C. Resuming the conversation after an interruption or after a

        digression.

     D. Polite strategies for discussing family background, including

        deafness in the family.

     E. Appropriate behavior while listening to a narration.

     F. Kinds of information given in discussion with an interviewer

        contrasted with kinds of information given in discussion with

        a close friend (differences in register).

     G. Exchanging information involving complex fingerspelling or

        complex numbering.

Assignments:

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

   assignments.  Ex: Students view a conversation and answer questions

   from the 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, LEVEL TWO by Lentz,

Mikos and Smith. DawnSign Press, 1990. (Lessons 16-18 and review)

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