ASL 1500 - American Sign Language I

1. Identify the five parameters of sign production: handshape, palm orientation, location, movement. 
2. Recognize and produce accurate “non-manual” grammar markers indicating a Yes/No, WH, Rhetorical and If/Then structure.  
3. Regularly produce letters and words using the manual alphabet.
4. Receptively deduct words signed using the manual alphabet.
5. Demonstrate non-verbal communication skills through pantomime capabilities expressing descriptions, ideas, and thoughts.
6. Demonstrate ability to express ideas in appropriate ASL structure.
7. Develop accurate classifier use in ASL demonstrating receptive and expressive understanding of descriptive and locative classifiers.
8. Develop expressive sign skills through employing appropriate role shift and spatial referents. 
9. Apply receptive skills to comprehend ASL short stories, core vocabulary, role shifting, characterization, facial grammar and body language.
10. Apply expressive sign skills to create signed stories that incorporate core vocabulary, facial grammar, body language, pantomime, role shift, classifiers, and ASL structure.
11. Discern Deaf cultural values and norms through classroom activities, videos, and personal interactions with the deaf community.
12. Compare and contrast native language with that of the Deaf community at a basic level.
13. Modify expressive sign production when comprehension errors occur in audience.