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Oct 31, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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AMSL 102 - American Sign Language II
PREREQUISITES: AMSL 101 - American Sign Language I
PROGRAM: World Languages
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 4
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 4
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2018
American Sign Language II is designed to provide a continuation of the introductory course. Students will increase their knowledge of the deaf community, culture, and deaf education in a hearing world. The deaf perspective on traditional employment of deaf people in a hearing society will be explored. In language development, complex grammar functions, expanded vocabulary, and skill development are incorporated into the use of sign production. Students will be exposed to the controversial cochlear implant and how it is affecting the deaf and their culture.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Accurately formulate, express, and expand their vocabulary of American Sign Language.
- Construct and compose sentences of complex structure in American Sign Language.
- Expand the use and meaning of facial expression in grammar structures.
- Learn how sign language number systems differ in various contexts.
- Practice and apply signing skills.
- Produce signed conversations at a beginning-intermediate level.
- Examine and identify traditional employment and common stereotypes of deaf adults throughout history to present time.
- Understand the deaf community’s perspective on education for the deaf in contrast to present day education in public schools.
- Analyze cross-cultural communication dynamics between deaf people and hearing people.
- Participate in discussions on the different degrees of hearing loss and hearing aids including the cochlear implant and to other types of technology/equipment used by the deaf to aid in their culture.
- Select the appropriate register to use in ASL communications.
- Using appropriate spatial agreements convey information in a variety of formats (song, storytelling, role-playing, idioms, etc.).
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Contrastive sentence structure
- Rhetorical questions
- Culture related topics
- Skill development
- Descriptive classifiers
- Spatial references
- Dual personal pronoun usage
- Topic/comment structure
- Number systems
- Vocabulary development
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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