SRJC Course Outlines

12/26/2024 7:48:49 PMASL 3 Course Outline as of Spring 2011

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CATALOG INFORMATION

Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 3Title:  INT AMER SIGN LANG PT 1  
Full Title:  Intermediate American Sign Language - Part 1
Last Reviewed:1/25/2021

UnitsCourse Hours per Week Nbr of WeeksCourse Hours Total
Maximum4.00Lecture Scheduled4.0017.5 max.Lecture Scheduled70.00
Minimum4.00Lab Scheduled017.5 min.Lab Scheduled0
 Contact DHR0 Contact DHR0
 Contact Total4.00 Contact Total70.00
 
 Non-contact DHR0 Non-contact DHR Total0

 Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00Total Student Learning Hours: 210.00 

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 2A

Catalog Description:
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Intensive instruction in intermediate American Sign Language using appropriate linguistic and cultural principles.  Instruction will focus on several broad areas:  locating household objects, complaining and making suggestions and requests, and exchanging personal information about life events.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ASL 2 ( or ASL 1B or ASL 51B or SE 214B)


Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
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Intensive instruction in intermediate American Sign Language using appropriate linguistic and cultural principles.
(Grade or P/NP)

Prerequisites:Course Completion of ASL 2 ( or ASL 1B or ASL 51B or SE 214B)
Recommended:
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:
 C2HumanitiesFall 1991
 
IGETC:Transfer Area Effective:Inactive:
 6ALanguage Other Than EnglishFall 1996
 
CSU Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1996Inactive:
 
UC Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1996Inactive:
 
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course



COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of the course, and at intermediate levels appropriate to the course, students will be able to:
1.  Participate in dialogues that require the synthesis of receptive and expressive ASL skills.
2.  Create a grammatically correct description in ASL of a house, all of its contents and various spatial relationships using locative classifiers.
3.  Use ASL to analyze a description of or directly describe a problem situation and produce appropriate and gramatically correct responses, including requests for assistance and possible solutions.
4.  Create a narrative about the life history of a deaf or hearing individual using ASL sequencing techniques and correct grammar and including elements such as nationality, ancestriy, familty relationships, and specific events.
5. Use ASL to converse with others about topics such as family history.
5.  Outline the major points of increasingly complex topics about Deaf culture.

Topics and Scope
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I.   Locating Things Around the House Using ASL
    A.  Describing a house in terms of rooms, colors, exterior materials
        and trim
    B.  Describing the contents of living room, bedroom, kitchen, or
        bathroom
    C.  Discussing and comparing different homes and their contents
    D.  Describing rearrangement of items in a house
    E.  Using locative classifiers
    F.  Phrase and vocabulary review
    G.  Grammatical concepts
        1.  Topic-comment structure
        2.  Non-dominant hand as reference
        3.  Types of locative classifiers
        4.  Ordinal numbers
     H.  Deaf culture topics
     1.  Examples of ASL Literature:  Handshape stories
     2.  Examples of ASL Folklore:  Cheers and songs in sign language
II.  Describing Illness and Problem Situations Around the Home Using ASL
    A.  Signs for common physical ailments
    B.  Events on a one-time, continuous, or recurring basis
    C.  Problems and annoyances among pets, family members and neighbors
    D.  Phrase and vocabulary review
    E.  Grammatical concepts
        1.  Adverbs for recurring and continuous events
        2.  Recurring and continuous temporal aspect
        3.  Inflecting verbs
     F. Deaf culture topic:  Some examples of ASL Poetry
III. Making Requests, Suggestions and Offers of Assistance in ASL
    A.  Expressing concern and offering suggestions or advice
    B.  Using context to deduce the meaning of a fingerspelled word
    C.  Phrase and vocabulary review
    D.  Grammatical concepts
        1.  Role shifting
        2.  Conditional sentences
        3.  Clock numbers
    E.  Deaf culture topic:  cross cultural communication strategies
        between Deaf and hearing people
IV.  Exchanging Personal Information in ASL About Life Events in One's
    Immediate Family
    A.  Narrating events in a life history using ages as referents
    B.  Sequencing techniques in narrating a life history
    C.  Applying generalized time to a narrate life history
    D.  Describing unexpected changes in a life history
    E.  Phrase and vocabulary review
    F.  Grammatical concepts
        1.  When clauses
        2.  Phrasing for sequencing events
        3.  Contrastive structure
    G.  Deaf culture topic:  A brief history of Martha's Vineyard, the
        first known natural signing community in America
V.   Describing and Narrating Life Events in a History of One's Ancestors
    A.  Signs of various countries around the world
    B.  Describing ancestry and family backgrounds in terms of
        nationalities
    C.  Giving a narrative of an extended family or ancestral history
    D.  Phrase and vocabulary review
    E.  Grammatical concepts
        1.  Possessive forms
        2.  Descriptive and locative classifiers
        3.  Dates and addresses
    F.  Deaf culture topic:  Biographies of several important Deaf
        Americans

Assignments:
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1.  Reading 15-20 pages per week of informational materials about Deaf
   culture.
2.  Writing three to four 2-3-page compositions about Deaf culture topics.
3.  Problem-solving assignments
   a.  Completing practice exercises from the workbook, video and
       teacher-prepared materials.
   b.  Group practice activities, games and other activities.
   c.  Reviewing lessons from the workbook and video and teacher-prepared
       materials.
   d.  Practicing conversational dialogues in ASL (as individuals and
       pairs).
4.  Skill demonstrations
   a.  Performing conversational dialogues in ASL.
   b.  Three-four presentations in ASL about deaf culture topics.
   c.  Viewing and interpreting short passages in ASL.
   d.  Performing short stories and narratives in ASL.
5.  Weekly or bi-weekly quizzes, chapter exams and final.

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
10 - 20%
Compositions; reports
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.Problem Solving
20 - 40%
See Problem Solving Assignments
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.Skill Demonstrations
20 - 35%
See Skill demonstration assignments
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.Exams
10 - 35%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.Other Category
0 - 0%
None


Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Signing Naturally, Student Videotext and Workbook, by Lentz, Mikos and
  Smith, DawnSign Press, 1989 (Level two, lessons 13-15 and review).
Instructor prepared materials.

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