ASL-201 American Sign Language III

This course is the third in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 201 develops a novice-high range of communication skills with the ability to expand discourse on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes the cultural practices distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of local, national, and global issues; examination of cultural norms, attitudes, and values of Deaf people; linguistic minority groups and access to society. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ASL-102 or Requisite Experience

Department

• Humanities

Semesters Course Will Be Offered

• Fall
• Spring
• Summer

For more detailed course information view the Course Outline

ASL 201: American Sign Language III

Department

Humanities

Course Description

This course is the third in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 201 develops a novice-high range of communication skills with the ability to expand discourse on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes the cultural practices distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of local, national, and global issues; examination of cultural norms, attitudes, and values of Deaf people; linguistic minority groups and access to society. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.

Credit Hours

3

Contact Hours

Lecture	3
Lab	0
Other	0

Grading Scheme

Letter

Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisites

ASL-102 or Requisite Experience

SUNY General Education Course

• World Languages

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Employ a novice-high range of communication skills: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational with ability to expand discourse on a variety of topics.
2. Examine the overarching cultural norms, attitudes, and values of Deaf people.
3. Examine a specific issue or social problem (local, national and/or global); state the issue and address possible solution(s).
4. Compare access to society for linguistic minority groups with one's own (or) the majority culture.
5. Use target language and cultural practices in the signing environment.

Topic Outline

1. Communication: ASL with ability to expand on a variety of topics 
   1. Complex statements: emerging conditional, when clauses and conjunctions, developing topicalization and rhetorical
   2. Non-manual markers: grammatical, emotive, size, shape, and relative distance; emerging temporal (repeated/continual) and degree (with attention/careless)
   3. Classifiers: semantic, descriptive, locative, instrumental, emerging body and body-part, environmental, and plural classifiers
   4. Functional structures: contrastive structure, ranking/listing, spatial agreement, role-shifting, real world orientation advancing expressive and receptive fingerspelling to include lexicalized fingerspelling
   5. Initiate interaction in full-immersion signing environment
2. Cultures 
   1. Examination of cultural norms, attitudes, and values of Deaf people – potential topics: 
      1. Collectivist vs. individualistic
      2. Visual / auditory perspectives
      3. Protection of language (English only US/ ASL equality)
3. Connections 
   1. Analysis of a specific issue or social problem (local, national, or global) – potential topics: 
      1. Access and/or discrimination
      2. Access to language and/or education
      3. Environment
      4. Audism, sexism, racism
      5. Politics
4. Comparisons
   1. Comparison of a linguistic minority groups’ access to society with one’s own language accessibility. 
      1. Home, school, workplace
5. Communities 
   1. Explore and articulate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one’s own chosen career- to include: 
      1. Transferring institutions
      2. Length and depth of study
      3. Pros and cons
6. Apply knowledge of cultural practices and behaviors through interactions at D/deaf community events.