ASL 1102 - American Sign Language and Culture II

1. Demonstrate increased understanding of and fluency in fingerspelling and ability to recognize those words finger-spelled to them.
2. Converse on topics such as travel, money, occupations, sports and leisure health and current events.
3. Demonstrate increased fluency related to proper understanding and use of specific features of the language as utilizing parameters of ASL such as handshape, movement, location, palm orientation.
4. Demonstrate increased fluency related to non-manual signals such as body language, mouth morphemes, grammatical facial expressions and beginner-level eye gaze.
5. Demonstrate increased fluency in implementing Deaf behaviors while conversing with native users of the language inside and outside of the classroom setting.
6. Appreciate the unique linguistic relationship between language and culture in ASL and how this interdependence affects Deaf and hard-of-hearing persons who use ASL to communicate.
7. Understand and analyze more advanced grammar and principals of ASL such as expanded classifier skills, utilize tense markers, adverbs, noun-verb pairs, role shift, spatial organization, descriptive signs, and directions.
8. Compare and contrast between various linguistic aspects of signed versus spoken language in general and between ASL and English in particular.
9. Comprehend and translate more complex grammatical structures into in ASL and be able to interpret or translate into English sentences.
10. Appreciate the various types of ASL literature used in the Deaf community and properly use narrative skills in storytelling community.
11. Appreciate the relationship between the Deaf community and societies in which they live both in the United States and abroad as well as the affect governments and laws can have on the Deaf communities.

1. Vocabulary relating to travel, money, occupations, sports and leisure health and current events
2. Using tense markers to indicate past or future
3. Making suggestions and giving advice
4. Sharing attitudes, values, opinions and concerns
5. Expressing satisfaction/dissatisfaction, and agreement/disagreement
6. Forming conditional sentences
7. Comparing and contrasting
8. Idiomatic expressions and verb preposition pairs such as: get (in, on, off)
9. Giving directions and instructions
10. Commonly used finger-spelled abbreviations and signing apostrophes with names
11. Giving feedback to and role-shifting between signers
12. Mouth morphemes and grammatical facial expressions
13. Describing a sequence of actions
14. Inflecting verbs and the facial adverbials that accompany such inflections
15. Changing the movement of adjectives to indicate intensity, repetition or continuity
16. Incorporating agent suffixes (e.g. teachER, learnER)
17. SVO, OSV and Topic/Comment sentence structures
18. Advanced rhetorical questions (RHQ)
19. Idiomatic expressions in ESL
20. Social and political issues within the Deaf Community such as employment, Crab Theory and the treatment of successful deaf people, importance of networking, socialization and support systems
21. Intercultural and sociolinguistic issues related to signing with English sentences Daily Conversation Practice (DCP) and distinctions between Signing Exact English (SEE), Pidgin Signing English (PSEE) and American Sign Languages (ASL)
22. Family issues such as child-rearing and CODAs (Children of Deaf Adults)