4/26/2024 8:08:29 PM	ASL 2 Course Outline as of Summer 2022	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 2	Title:  ELEM AMER SIGN LAN PT 2
Full Title:  Elementary American Sign Language - Part 2
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
		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 1B

Catalog Description:

Continuation of instruction in elementary American Sign Language using appropriate linguistic and cultural principles.  Instruction increases and expands conversational strategies and comprehension of ASL grammatical structures.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ASL 1

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent or appropriate placement based on AB705 mandates

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Continuation of instruction in elementary American Sign Language using appropriate linguistic and cultural principles.  Instruction increases and expands conversational strategies and comprehension of ASL grammatical structures.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of ASL 1
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
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1991
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Spring 2007
	6A	Language Other Than English
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1996	Spring 2007
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

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:	12/8/2014
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:

1. Develop strategies for engaging in conversations in ASL using statements, questions, and brief narrative elements, while modeling behaviors that are culturally appropriate among ASL signers.

2. Use and comprehend vocabulary as used for everyday or specialized topics and activities, with increased fluency in fingerspelling and numbers.

3. Increase use of grammatical structures such as temporal aspect, role shifting, complex noun-verb agreement, and classifiers, with accurate use of ASL parameters and non-manual markers.

4. Discuss features of the culture and history of Deaf people and ASL, including sociolinguistic and intersectional variations in the Deaf experience.

 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.   Demonstrate understanding of signing and fingerspelling with accuracy.

2.   Compose comprehensible sentences and passages with communicative purposes, displaying minimum surface-level errors in ASL parameter and grammatical usage.

3.   Generate questions, requests, and short narratives using grammatical structures involving subjects and predicates.

4.   Respond to other signers, using common ASL vocabulary and metalinguistic feedback related to everyday and specialized 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 to intermediate grammatical structures involving subjects and predicates.

8.   Use fingerspelling to express names,  lexicalized signs and loan words.

9.   Develop, organize, and sign short narratives and presentations.

10. Describe social, cultural, historical, political, sociolinguistic, and intersectional aspects of Deaf and signing communities in the USA.

Topics and Scope

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. Review of ASL conventions

         1. eye contact

         2. voices off

         3. attention-getting

         4. turn-taking

    D. Review of commands and requests

 

II. Vocabulary Development

     A. People

         1. identity

         2. social roles

         3. cultural roles

         4. political roles

         5. occupations

    B. Places

         1. housing

         2. work

         3. classroom

         4. school

         5. community features

         6. cities

         7. states

         8. geography

    C. Descriptions

         1. clothing details

         2. physical details

         3. personal qualities

         4. sizes

         5. distances

         6. colors

         7. shapes

         8. opinions

         9. feelings

    D. Numbers and time

         1. cardinal 1-1000

         2. telling time

         3. phone numbers

         4. money

         5. years

         6. past/future

         7. ranking)

    E. Activities

         1. leisure

         2. sports

         3. hobbies

    F. Interactions

         1. arrivals

         2. leave-takings

         3. emergencies

    G. Negations

         1. lack of

         2. refusal

         3. disagreement

         4. caution

         5. prohibition

         6. incomplete

         7. not yet

         8. not required

         9. inappropriate

    H. Miscellaneous

         1. gossip

         2. informal registers

         3. slang

         4. holidays

         5. popular culture

         6. current trends

         7. 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

         6. body part

         7. body part shape and size specifier

         8. elemental

         9. plural

    C. Non-manual markers

         1. facial expressions

         2. body shifting

         3. mouth morphemes

    D. Detailed sentences

         1. subject-predicate structure

         2. topicalization

         3. conjunctions

         4. role-shifting

         5. adjectives

         6. adverbs

    E. Verb modification

         1. directionality

         2. multi-subject verb agreement

         3. temporal aspect

    F. Comparisons

         1. contrastive structure

         2. listing/ranking

         3. incorporation of subordinate details such as narration or description

         4. locative consistency

    G. Questions

         1. yes/no

         2. wh-q

         3. rhetorical

         4. requests

         5. advice-seeking

         6. strategies for asking about signs

 

IV. Composition

    A. Narratives

         1. autobiographical

         2. situational

         3. descriptive

    B. Problem-based scenarios

         1. conflicts

         2. resolutions

 

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

         7.   notable events, places, and persons

         8.   current issues and trends

         9.   cultural activities

         10. sociolinguistic and intersectional topics

Assignments:

1. Readings 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 50-100 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 (3-7 per week)

6. Expressive video or live performance projects (2-4 projects per semester)

7. Written or signed responses, such as reflections, analyses, or reports (4-8 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 or signed 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:

TRUE+WAY American Sign Language (online content). 2020

 

My ASL Book: A Communicative Approach for Learning a Visual Language, Levels 2 & 3 (print and online content). Bangs, Donald. Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2018

 

Signing Naturally: Student Workbook, Units 7-12 (print and DVDs or online content). Lentz, Ella and Mikos, Ken and Smith, Cheri. DawnSignPress. 2014 (classic)

 

ASL at Work (print and DVD). Newell, William and Sanders, Cynthia and Holcomb, Barbara. DawnSignPress. 2010 (classic)

 

Master ASL! 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:	U	User Generated Text
Advisories-generate description:	A	Auto-Generated Text
Prereq-provisional:	N	NO
Prereq/coreq-registration check:	Y	Prerequisite Rules Exist
Requires instructor signature:	N	Instructor's Signature Not Required
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	Major Applicable Course
Repeatability:	00	Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Repeat group id:
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
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
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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