ASL 2201 - American Sign Language and Culture III

1. Demonstrate competency and appropriate receptive and expressive use of finger spelling; formation of the alphabet for expression, visually recognize the letter, develop fluency in expressive finger spelling, comprehension of receptive finger spelling, content and closure in comprehension of receptive finger spelling.
2. Demonstrate competency and appropriate receptive and expressive use of beginning ASL vocabulary and actual formation of the signs using the four parameters of ASL: hand shape, location, palm orientation, movement.
3. Demonstrate competency, appropriate receptive and expressive use, and understanding of specific grammatical features of the language: two question types - YES/NO question; WH questions forms; statements, negatives, eye gaze, indexing, spacial relationship.
4. Develop an awareness of specific features of the deaf community as a distinct culture: linguistics, social, auditory, political.
5. Diglossic and bilingual continuum; an introduction to various sign systems and their use by deaf people and use in teaching deaf people: American Sign Language; Manually coded English.
6. Express abstract concepts in ASL using appropriate grammatical structure, sign vocabulary, finger spelling, conversational regulators and information about deaf culture.

1. Finger spelling
2. Vocabulary
3. Grammar
4. Deaf culture
5. Differences between ASL and English syntax