NWCCD 2020-21 Catalog 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
NWCCD 2020-21 Catalog [This is an Archived Catalog.]

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ASL 1600 - American Sign Language II


This course is the second level of American Sign Language and emphasizes development and refinement of comprehension, production and interpersonal skills covered in ASL 1500.  Students will increase accuracy and fluency in expressive and receptive sign skills. Additional instruction on English to ASL and ASL to English translation is offered.  Full emersion methods are employed to enhance the student learning process.

Credits: 4

General Education Requirement: Foreign Language
Prerequisites:
ASL 1500 American Sign Language I

Minimum Student Competencies
Upon completion of ASL 1600 American Sign Language II, the student will:

  1. Illustrate intermediate signing skills through clarity of signs using appropriate handshape, palm orientation, location and movement.
  2. Categorize and construct accurate “non-manual” grammar markers in expressive and receptive signed structures.
  3. Formulate accurate translations of both expressively and receptively signed finger spelled words and phrases.
  4.  Construct further expressively accurate ASL structure, role shift, facial grammar and body language. 
  5. Generate proper and accurate ASL structures when translating English sentences.
  6. Generate proper translations from ASL into English sentences.
  7. Critique expressive and receptive skills of themselves and others through ASL dialogue, stories, narratives, poetry, and lab work.
  8. Design signed presentations that accurately apply expressive skills using intermediate vocabulary, role shifting, characterization, facial grammar and body language. 
  9. Evaluate signed presentations and accurately comprehend receptive signing skills identifying intermediate vocabulary, role shifting, characterization, facial grammar and body language. 
  10.  Evaluate cultural perspectives through signed presentations on a Deaf historical figure and cultural values of the Deaf community furthering investigation into Deaf culture.
  11. Reconstruct expressive intermediate sign production when comprehension errors occur in audience.
  12. Combine intermediate skills to accurately demonstrate complex sentence structures in ASL using appropriate vocabulary, classifiers, grammatical features and role shift.
  13. Construct alternate signing strategies when audience miscues occur.




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