ASL& 223: American Sign Language VI

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Class Program

American Sign Language

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

090934

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

Continuation of ASL&222. Emphasizes increased fluency with ASL narratives and storytelling. Course focuses on specialized ASL vocabulary for survival/ social situations, organizational structures and conversational behaviors within the Deaf Community.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

ASL& 222

Course Learning Outcomes

Narrate and describe events including relevant and supporting facts in a connected, paragraph length ASL discourse.

Apply ASL linguistic features by employing the use of communicative strategies such as rephrasing, register, explanation or anecdote.

Apply expressive skill in narratives and ASL storytelling such as fairytales/folklore.

Demonstrate conversational fluency on a variety of specialized topics such as finances, health, and decision making.

Discuss the linguistic and cultural diversity within the Deaf World.

Core Topics

Continued study of syntactic structure and its interaction with meaning.
Conversational fluency on a variety of topics such as: money/finances, making major decisions, sharing opinions and expectations.
Taking complex information, identifying important components and organizing information for output in ASL.
Identifying key elements used to adapt written stories into ASL Developing, translating and performing a narrative in the target language.
Learning to understand the deaf experiences related to identity development.