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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 or appropriate placement based on AB705 mandates
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 or appropriate placement based on AB705 mandates
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
Approval and Dates
| Version: | 010 | Course Created/Approved: | 8/1/1981 |
| Version Created: | 1/24/2022 | Course Last Modified: | 12/30/2023 |
| Submitter: | Jessica Pardoe | Course Last Full Review: | 1/25/2021 |
| Version Status: | Approved Changed Course | Prereq Created/Approved: | 1/25/2021 |
| Version Status Date: | 2/7/2022 | Semester Last Taught: | Fall 2023 |
| Version Term Effective: | Summer 2022 | Term Inactive: | |
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Intitate and respond to simple and brief conversations in ASL using statements, questions, and behaviors that are appropriate among ASL signers.
2. Use and comprehend basic vocabulary for a variety of everyday topics and activities, including the manual alphabet and numbers.
3. Use simple grammatical structures such as directional verbs, indexing, contrastive structure, subject-predicate order, with attention to ASL paramenters and non-manual markers.
4. Discuss features of the culture and history of Deaf people and ASL, including sociolingustic and intersectional variations in the Deaf experiences.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of signing and fingerspelling with accuracy.
2. Compose short comprehensible sentences with communicative purposes, displaying minimum surface- level errors in ASL parameter usage.
3. Generate questions and requests using simple grammatical structures involving subjects and predicates.
4. Respond to other signers, using common ASL vocabulary and metalinguistic feedback related to everyday topics.
5. Use greetings, interactions, and conversational techniques in a culturally appropriate manner.
6. Correctly interpret or evaluate content from authentic ASL texts.
7. Use basic grammatical structures involving subjects and predicates.
8. Use fingerspelling to express names, lexicalized signs and loan words.
9. Develop, organize, and sign short narratives.
10. Describe social, cultural, historical, political, sociolinguistic, and intersctional aspects of Deaf and signing communities in the USA.
Topics and Scope
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I. Course Orientation
A. Accessing and using course materials
1. classroom
2. campus
3. community
4. online resources
B. Production of ASL texts (videos)
C. Introduction of ASL conventions
1. eye contact
2. voices off
3. attention-getting
4. turn-taking
D. Introduction to commands and requests
II. Vocabulary Development
A. People
1. identitiy
2. nationalities
3. hearing/deaf family members
4. roles
5. agent markers
6. ages
B. Places
1. housing
2. work
3. classroom
4. school
5. community features
6. cities
7. states
8. geography
C. Descriptions
1. clothing
2. physical appearance
3. sizes
4. distances
5. colors
6. shapes
7. opinions
8. feelings
D. Numbers and time
1. cardinal 1-100
2. ordinal 1-20th
3. days
4. weeks
5. months
6. years
7. seasons
8. durations
E. Activities
1. leisure
2. sports
3. hobbies
F. Greetings
1. salutations
2. valedictions
3. introducing one another
G. Negations
1. lack of
2. refusal
3. disagreement
4. dislike
5. don't want
H. Miscellaneous
1. food
2. drink
3. holidays
4. popular culture
5. current trends
6. technology
III. Grammatical Development
A. Parameters
1. handshape
2. location
3. movement
4. palm orientation
5. non-manual markers
B. Classifiers
1. descriptive
2. locative
3. instrumental
4. semantic
5. entity
C. Non-manual markers
1. facial expressions
2. body shifting
3. mouth morphemes
D. Basic sentence
1. subject-predicate structure
2. topicalization
3. personal pronouns
4. possessive pronouns
5. sequencing
E. Verb modification
1. directionality
2. noun-verb
3. spatial agreement
F. Comparisons
1. constrastive structure
2. listing/ranking
G. Questions
1. yes/no
2. wh-q
3. rhetorical
4. strategies for asking about signs
IV. Composition
A. Short narratives (autobiographical)
B. Retelling stories
1. folktale
2. humor
V. Cultural Skills
A. Communicating with others
1. backchanneling
2. clarification
3. asking for new signs
B. Etiquette and behavioral norms
1. signing environments
2. attention-getting
3. interruptions
4. pointing in public
5. social conventions
C. Traditions and heritage
1. folklore
2. storytelling
3. poetry
4. visual vernacular
5. humor
6. history
a. notable events
b. places
c. persons
7. current issues and trends
8. cultural activities
9. sociolinguistic and intersectional topics
Assignments:
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1. Reading on sign language grammar, techniques, and cultural topics from textbook, print, or digital materials (average 10-15 pages per week)
2. Video viewings from DVD or online collections (1-3 hours per week)
3. Memorization of sign vocabulary and grammatical modifications (average 50-75 signs per week)
4. Receptive practice exercises (3-7 per week)
5. Expressive practice exercises, such as vocabulary recitations, solo monologues, paired or group dialogues; presentations; role-playing (2-5 per week)
6. Expressive video or live performance projects (2-4 projects per semester)
7. Written responses (6-8 per semester)
8. Quizzes, tests, final exam
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% |
| Written responses, exercises | |
| 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% |
| Expressive practice exercises, expressive projects, receptive exercises | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 30% |
| Quizzes, tests, final exam | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 30% |
| Video recordings | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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True+Way American Sign Language (online)
My ASL Book: A Communicative Approach for Learning a Visual Language. Bangs, Donald. Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2012 (classic)
ASL at work (print and DVD). Newell, William and Sanders, Cynthia and Holcomb, Barbara. DawnSignPress. 2010 (classic)
Signing Naturally: Student Workbook, Units 1-6 (book and DVDs). Smith, Cheri and Lentz, Ella and Milos, Ken. DawnSign Press. 2008 (classic)
MasterASL! Level One Student Textbook (print and DVD). Zinza, Jason. Sign Media, Inc. 2006. (classic)
Instructor prepared materials
OTHER REQUIRED ELEMENTS
| Student Preparation |
| Matric Assessment Required: | E | Requires English Assessment |
| Prerequisites-generate description: | NP | No Prerequisite |
| Advisories-generate description: | A | Auto-Generated Text |
| Prereq-provisional: | N | NO |
| Prereq/coreq-registration check: | N | No Prerequisite Rules Exist |
| Requires instructor signature: | N | Instructor's Signature Not Required |
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| BASIC INFORMATION, HOURS/UNITS & REPEATABILITY |
| Method of instruction: | 02 | Lecture |
| | 71 | Internet-Based, Simultaneous Interaction |
| | 72 | Internet-Based, Delayed Interaction |
| Area department: | WLANG | World Languages |
| Division: | 71 | Language Arts & Academic Foundations |
| Special topic course: | N | Not a Special Topic Course |
| Program Status: | 1 | Both Certificate and Major Applicable |
| Repeatability: | 00 | Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP |
| Repeat group id: | | |
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| SCHEDULING |
| Audit allowed: | Y | Auditable |
| Open entry/exit: | N | Not Open Entry/Open Exit |
| Credit by Exam: | N | Credit by examination not allowed |
| Budget code: Program: | 0000 | Unrestricted |
| Budget code: Activity: | 1135 | American Sign Language |
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| OTHER CODES |
| Disciplines: | Sign Language, American |
| Basic Skills: | N | Not a Basic Skills Course |
| Level below transfer: | Y | Not Applicable |
| CVU/CVC status: | Y | Distance Ed, Not CVU/CVC Developed |
| Distance Ed Approved: | Y | Either online or hybrid, as determined by instructor |
| Emergency Distance Ed Approved: | Y | Fully Online
Partially Online
Online with flexible in-person activities
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| Credit for Prior Learning: | N | Agency Exam |
| N | CBE |
| N | Industry Credentials |
| N | Portfolio |
| Non-credit category: | Y | Not Applicable, Credit Course |
| Classification: | Y | Liberal Arts and Sciences Courses |
| SAM classification: | E | Non-Occupational |
| TOP code: | 0850.00 | Sign Language |
| Work-based learning: | N | Does Not Include Work-Based Learning |
| DSPS course: | N | NO |
| In-service: | N | Not an in-Service Course |
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