SRJC Course Outlines

3/28/2024 2:30:02 PMASL 1 Course Outline as of Fall 2014

Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION

Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 1Title:  ELEM AMER SIGN LANG PT 1  
Full Title:  Elementary 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 Scheduled06 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 1A

Catalog Description:
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Introduction to elementary American Sign Language, focusing on both receptive and expressive skills, ASL literature, and Deaf culture and community.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:


Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
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Introduction to elementary American Sign Language, focusing on both receptive and expressive skills, ASL literature, and Deaf culture and community.
(Grade or P/NP)

Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
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 1997
 6ALanguage Other Than EnglishFall 1996Fall 1997
 
CSU Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1991Inactive:
 
UC Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1991Inactive:
 
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Both Certificate and Major Applicable



COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1.   Initiate and maintain simple conversations in ASL on everyday topics using statements
and questions with appropriate grammatical structures and high frequency or cognate
vocabulary.
2.   Use and comprehend appropriate vocabulary for a variety of everyday topics and activities.
3.   Use appropriate grammatical structures such as yes/no questions, wh-questions,
rh-questions, and topicalization.
4.   Identify defining features of Deaf culture, particularly as they differ from the hearing world.
 

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Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
 
1.  Participate in interactions involving high-frequency ASL vocabulary.
2.  Comprehend and produce a variety of basic commands in grammatical ASL.
3.  Comprehend and articulate a variety of spatial orientations and relationships involving
specific locations.
4.  Prepare a grammatical description in ASL dialogue of the relationships between the
family members including ages, occupations, and their likes/dislikes.
5.  Produce a grammatical description in ASL of dates and activities from a calendar.
6.  Use number signs, time designations, and descriptions to produce an accurate ASL
description of a variety of situations.
7.  Use yes/no-questions, rhetorical rh-questions, topicalization, and wh-questions.
8.  Use classifiers to describe shapes and movements among objects and people.
9.  Examine the narrative elements and structures of basic short stories in ASL and retell
those stories.
10.Describe some basic Deaf culture rules of social interaction within the Deaf community
and apply these rules to produce effective basic communication with Deaf people.
11.Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives
of American Deaf culture.
12.Demonstrate ability to respond to listeners metalinguistic feedback.
13.Demonstrate ability to recognize and produce words via fingerspelling.

Topics and Scope
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1.   Self-identification, personal information, nationalities, hearing/non-hearing, and  occupations
2.   Family members
3.   Clothing and descriptive classifiers
4.   Response to social and personal questions including backchanneling and information correction
5.   Yes/No, wh-questions and rh-questions
6.   The use of facial expression and non-manual markers
7.   Spatial referencing, agent markers, and negation
8.   Basic commands
9.   Giving and understanding directions and spatial relationships
10. Shapes and colors
11. ASL syntax
12. Time and calendar
13. Wants, needs, and description of feelings
14. Planning and scheduling an activity
15. Storytelling - comprehension and retelling
16. Subject, object, reflexive and possessive pronouns
17. Topics on Deaf history and culture
18. Social interaction with a deaf person, such as getting attention, establishing a signing environment,
clarification/repetitions, and backchanneling

Assignments:
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1.  Reviewing lesson(s) from the textbook (average 10-15 pages per week)
2.  Memorizing signed vocabulary and verb conjugations (average 75-100 signs per week)
3.  Completing practice exercises from the workbook, video and teacher-prepared materials (6-8 per week)
4.  Weekly quizzes and tests
5.  Producing ASL videos (average 2-3 videos per semester)
6.  Watching DVDs to practice signs (6-8 videos per week)
7.  In-class participation
8.  Group and paired practice activities
9.  Reading short paragraphs and dialogues on cultural topics
10. Written summary responses to reading assignments, 3 per semester, 1-2 pages each.

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 - 15%
Summary responses
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.Problem Solving
0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.Skill Demonstrations
40 - 50%
Presentations, group signing, role playing, dialogues
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.Exams
20 - 40%
Quizzes and exams, multiple choice, true/false, matching items, completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.Other Category
10 - 30%
Completion of computer-based exercises, video assignments, class participation


Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Signing Naturally: Student Work book, Units 1-6 (book and DVDs); Smith, Lentz, and Milos; DawnSign Press, San Diego, CA: (2008) (Classic)
 
My ASL Book: A Communicative Approach for Learning a Visual Language, 1st Edition; Bangs, D. Kendall Hunt Publishing: (2012)
 
Instructor prepared materials

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