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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ASL 1 | Title:
ELEM AMER SIGN LANG PT 1 |
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| Full Title:
Elementary American Sign Language - Part 1 |
| Last Reviewed:1/25/2021 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 4.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 4.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 70.00 |
| Minimum | 4.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 4.00 | | Contact Total | 70.00 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 140.00 | Total 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
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.
(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
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | C2 | Humanities | Fall 1991 | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 6A | Language Other Than English | Fall 1997 | |
| | 6A | Language Other Than English | Fall 1996 | Fall 1997 |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1991 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1991 | Inactive: | |
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| 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
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,
rhetorical questions, and topicalization.
4. Identify defining features of Deaf culture, particularly as they differ from the hearing world.
Objectives:
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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 grammatically correct dialogue in ASL about the relationships between the
family members including ages, occupations, and their likes/dislikes.
5. Description using topicalization 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 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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I. Self-Identification, Personal Information, Nationalities, Hearing/Non-hearing, and Occupations
II. Family Members
III. Clothing and Descriptive Classifiers
IV. Response to Social and Personal Questions
A. Backchanneling
B. Information correction
V. Yes/No, Wh- Questions and Rhetorical Questions
VI. The Use of Facial Expression and Non-Manual Markers
VII. Spatial Referencing, Agent Markers, and Negation
VIII. Basic Commands
IX. Giving and Understanding Directions and Spatial Relationships
X. Shapes and Colors
XI. ASL Syntax
XII. Time and Calendar
XIII. Wants, Needs, and Description of Feelings
XIV. Planning and Scheduling an Activity
XV. Storytelling - Comprehension and Retelling
XVI. Subject, Object, Reflexive and Possessive Pronouns
XVII. Topics on Deaf History and Culture
XVIII. Social Interaction with a Deaf Person, such as:
A. Getting attention
B. Establishing a signing environment
C. Clarification/repetitions
D. 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, as well as computer-based exercises (6-8 per week)
4. Quizzes and exams
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, presentations, group signing, role playing, dialogues
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, Exams | |
| 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 Workbook, Units 1-6 (book and DVDs). Smith, Cheri and Lentz, Ella and Milos, Ken. DawnSign Press. 2008 (classic)
My ASL Book: A Communicative Approach for Learning a Visual Language. Bangs, Donald. Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2012 (classic)
True+Way American Sign Language (online)
Instructor prepared materials
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