11/21/2024 7:19:14 AM	ASL 1 Course Outline as of Fall 2014	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ASL 1	Title:  ELEM AMER SIGN LANG PT 1
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
		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:

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:

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:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1991
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1997
	6A	Language Other Than English		Fall 1996	Fall 1997
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1991	Inactive:
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:

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.

 

Objectives:

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

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:

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:

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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