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ASL 20200

American Sign Language IV
ASL 20200

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About the Course
This course is designed to build on and apply ASL conversational skills and cultural behaviors acquired from previous courses, ASL 101 and ASL 201 to a functional level that includes new expanded conversational and narrative skills using both concrete and abstract concepts. Students will continue to learn the units of the Signing Naturally curriculum, which uses the “functional-notional” approach where ASL grammatical principals are also emphasized in this course. This method focuses on the communicative purposes or “functions” of social interaction. The course incorporates interactive activities, which will encourage a natural language environment using the target language, American Sign Language by giving students situations, which allows them to concentrate on the purpose rather than the mechanics of the conversation. Students will also learn to tell stories, use the language in a variety of settings and study ASL grammatical rules with attention on non-manual features including non-manual grammatical signals, and prosodic features of intensity and characterization. Emphasis is placed on narrative receptive and expressive skill development. Attention is given to the basic discourse structures used in both dialogues and storytelling.
Course Goals/Learning Objectives
The intent of the course is to provide students with more opportunities and experiences to advance their receptive and expressive sign language skills, and learn more about American Deaf culture to allow for interactive opportunities with the Deaf Community. After completing this course students will be able to:
  1. Understand and manage more complex interactions involving expanded ASL lexical signs, grammatical rules, and sentence structure (syntax).
  2. Demonstrate an expanded conversational and narrative skill in ASL using both concrete and abstract concepts.
  3. Exhibit the ability to use appropriate ASL grammatical features and functions of the language used in dialogues and story-telling that includes non-manual grammatical signals, and prosodic features of intensity and characterizations.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for Deaf people and ASL by engaging appropriate conversation strategies used in the Deaf Community and applying their ASL skills within and beyond the school settings.

ASL 20200

Course Catalog
ASL 20200 American Sign Language IV

Description
Credit Hours: 3.00. A continuation of ASL 20100. Includes some introduction to linguistic structure, especially classifiers, temporal sequencing and aspect, and conversational regulators. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours
Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture
Offered By: College of Liberal Arts
Department: School of Languages & Cultures
Course Attributes
Lower Division, UC-Humanities, GTC-Humanistic-Artistic
May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette
Prerequisites
(Undergraduate level ASL 20100 Minimum Grade of B- or Undergraduate level SPHS S3210 Minimum Grade of B-)
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