ASL& 122 - American Sign Language II

5 Credits

ASL& 122 is a comprehensive, second level beginning course in American Sign Language, which includes instruction and practice in expressive and receptive language skills and continued cultural exploration.

Pre-requisite(s) ASL& 121 min 1.5
Course Note Previously ASL 102.
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered

Winter Day, Evening

Designed to Serve Transfer students who need to fulfill a language requirement; students interested in languages and cultures.
Active Date 2015-02-02

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Worksite 0 Clinical 0 Other 0
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Humanities Area I

Course Outline
400 core supplemental vocabulary additional to ASL& 121 Numbers 1-1 million Money Basic Math Incorporate numbers into age, time, money and pronominal signs Plain/non-directional verbs and inflecting/directional verbs Object-subject-verb and subject-verb-object sentence structures Rhetorical questions and conditional sentences American Deaf history, culture and education Community contact hours

Student Learning Outcomes
Students demonstrate expressive (manual) proficiency in ASL with emphasis on clear articulation of the parameters of signs.

Students demonstrate receptive (visual comprehension) proficiency in ASL.

Students demonstrate an ability to use basic grammatical structure.

Students demonstrate an understanding of American Deaf culture and its relationship to mainstream English-hearing and speaking U.S. culture.