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American Sign Language 1 (AMSL 1000)
Total Credits:
4
Lecture Credits:
4
Description:
This course is an introduction to American Sign Language (ASL), a visual/gestural language used by Deaf people. You will learn sign vocabulary, grammar and Deaf culture. You will develop receptive and expressive skills.
Topical Outline:
1. Receptive: Students watch the classroom instructors and other students sign sentences, dialogues, and stories about self, family, and daily life. They watch classroom instructions and participate in small and large group exchanges
2. Expressive: Students sign about themselves and their own lives as well as other basic cultural and contemporary issues
3. Grammatical topics: sign parameters, facial expression, classifiers (size and shape, placement, and categories), politeness, noun/verb pairs, topicalization, sentence structure)
4. Grammatical topics: sign parameters, facial expression, classifiers (size and shape, placement, and categories), politeness, noun/verb pairs, topicalization, sentence structure)
5. Culture: residential schools, D/deaf terms, difference between LIVE and FROM, interruptions, flashing lights, personal information regarding deafness and family, video phone/video relay, different country sign languages
Learning Outcomes:
1. Dialogue and communicate in ASL about familiar topics, demonstrating awareness of protocol
2. Participate in paired and group activities to practice self-expression on personal, cultural, and current topics within limits of linguistic ability
3. Understand instructions in ASL
4. Compare and contrast cultural behaviors in everyday situations
5. Compare and contrast cultural behaviors in everyday situations
6. Use ASL beyond the school setting for lifelong learning and for participating in the global community
MnTC:
Goal 8