AMSL111 American Sign Language II
Department of Language & Literature: American Sign Language
- I. Course Number and Title
- AMSL111 American Sign Language II
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Number of Instructional Minutes
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- AMSL110 (C or better) or permission of the Department of Language and Literature
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
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This course may not satisfy foreign language requirements at transfer institutions.
This course meets the General Education requirement for Arts/Humanities.
This course meets the General Education requirement for Diversity. - VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course continues the work begun in AMSL110; students develop visual receptive skills, with a focus on visual memory, visual discrimination, and gestural expressive skills, and learn basic ASL vocabulary and grammatical structures. Students further their association with the American Deaf Community as a linguistic and cultural minority.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
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Course Learning Goals
Students will:
- continue to develop receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language [Arts/Humanities];
- recognize and produce more complex ASL vocabulary and grammatical structures; and
- articulate an awareness of more of the cross-cultural issues facing the American Deaf Community as a minority culture [Diversity].
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Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities
Students:
- practice and apply the grammatical forms mentioned below in the communicative context of expressive and receptive signing skills;
- acquire and use appropriate vocabulary based on the everyday topics mentioned below;
- determine the right way to express themselves in various social settings by learning on an elementary level "how, when, and why to say what to whom; and
- compare and contrast the various cultural aspects of Deaf culture and community with their own.
Grammatical topics
Vocabulary and non-manual grammatical signals for question forms (“wh-“ and rhetorical forms)
Descriptive classifiers
Temporal sequencing
Pronoun relationships (dual-pronouns, reflexives)
Verb forms (locative, inflected and spatial)
Non-manual adjectives and adverbs
Conditionals
Topic-comment structure
Numbering systems for ordinal numbers, money and clock time
Vocabulary and Social Contexts
Giving directions
Describing others
Making requests
Talking about family and work
Attributing qualities to others
Talking about routines -
Assessment Methods for Course Learning Goals
Students:
- take frequent quizzes and unit tests;
- complete homework, such as short composition and grammatical exercises;
- perform visual comprehension exercises; and
- participate in visual interviews and/or presentations that assess proficiency levels.
Quizzes and tests taken in class include the cultural topics presented in the course.
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Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Student:
Students use text, multimedia resources, and workbook of first-year proficiency-based American Sign Language program and a supplemental cultural reader. See course syllabus.
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Review/Approval Date -3/98; Core Goals/Objectives added 4/04; Revised 4/2011; New Core 8/15