ASL 212 - American Sign Language 5

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Evaluate skills learned from American Sign Language 4 and utilize complex constructs, processes and settings. Construct dialogues about finances, health, multiple role shifts, longer stories and narratives, and hypotheticals. Examine cultural attitudes in the deaf community.

Prerequisite(s): ASL 211 with a grade of C or better or permission of department chair.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Spring

Course Outcomes:

Examine general themes and issues in the realm of American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf communities.
- Distinguish between appropriate ASL grammatical structures and English-influenced structures.
- Summarize personal events by using diamond-structure dialogue format.
Explore the mechanisms of learning and language acquisition.
- Distinguish between signing word-for-word as opposed to conveying concepts.
- Explore learning new vocabulary with using activities to prepare for real-life application.
- Recognize the constant evolution of languages, including ASL.
Explore trends and norms in social settings.
- Describe what are norms and values in Deaf culture.
- Contrast conformity and independence.
- Review components of attitudes and how they are perceived in the Deaf and hearing communities.
Explore areas of language and response.
- Explore responses by confirming, correcting, and giving appropriate reactions.
- Explore appropriate reactions.
Explore the areas of language and expression.
- Explore language by role shifting.
- Explore discourse with setting description, object description and function, and processes.
- Explore language through finances and numbers.
- Compare translations and equivalencies in languages.
Explore the art of retelling stories.
- Examine personal stories.
- Review the key elements.
- Review strategies in adaptation.
Explore and examine in constructive feedback to peers.
- Review peers’ storytelling.
- Examine in providing structured feedback.
Explore additional information about cultural norms and values in the Deaf communities.
- Participate in Deaf events for real-life applications.
- Examine and explore the Deaf communities for evidence of cultural norms and values.