Prerequisites

• ​​​Every transfer student and new student with ASL knowledge can take the ASLIT Department ASL Placement Test to ensure that you are placed in the correct skill level. 
• You must make a “C” or better in this class to meet the prerequisite for SGNL 2301, American Sign Language III.
• If you have not met the prerequisites for this class, you cannot remain in this level and will need to withdraw immediately.

1. TRUE+WAY ASL: Units 6 – 10 Student e-Workbook. Austin, TX: Purple Moontower.

   First, go to the Blackboard and start with the TRUE+WAY ASL (TWA) student JOIN link to connect your workbook directly to this course. The 'TWA student JOIN link' will be posted in the Blackboard Announcement. When you register for the eWorkbook, you will be prompted to pay or put in codes (you can pay directly or get codes from the ACC bookstore).

2. Deaf Again. Drolsbaugh, (2008). 4th Edition. Springhouse, PA: Handwave Publications. ISBN: 0965746062

Course Description

This course develops receptive and expressive ability and allows recognition and demonstration of more sophisticated grammatical features of American Sign Language (ASL). Increases fluency and accuracy in fingerspelling and numbers. Provides opportunities for interaction within the deaf community. (4-3-2) This is a 4 credit hour course with 3 lecture hours each week and 2 laboratory or activity hours each week. Course requires significant time outside of class.

Course Rationale/Objectives

The purpose of this course is to help students develop the study skills needed to learn a language and to review and practice what they are learning in class. This may include lectures, small group activities, use of electronic media, going to the ASLIT Lab and Deaf events. Students will be encouraged to practice their comprehension and production skills so that students can have a positive experience with this course. Participation in class and/or online is expected of students.

Course and Student Learning Outcomes: 

1. Vocabulary Development
   1. The student will be exposed to vocabulary items in Units 6-10 of the TRUE+WAY ASL e-workbook.
   2. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of targeted vocabulary words drawn from class items and videos.
2. Grammatical Features
   1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of target, content-specific commands, questions, and statements in ASL.
   2. The student will be exposed to short dialogues in ASL as directed by the professor.
   3. The students will demonstrate the ability to recognize and produce complex ASL sentences.
3. Conversational and Communication Skills
   1. The student will demonstrate comprehension and conversation facilitating behaviors.
   2. The student will demonstrate comprehension and production of regulating behaviors (i.e. attention getting techniques, turn taking signals, and others)
   3. The student will be exposed to short narratives and stories in ASL as signed by the professor, Deaf users of ASL, or viewed on ASL videos.
   4. The student will demonstrate the ability to create, conduct and terminate a short content-specific conversation.
4. Cultural Awareness
   1. The students will read/see information on Deaf Americans, ASL, and its history. The student is responsible for the cultural notes and information from lectures discussed in class, TRUE+WAY ASL, films, and Introduction to American Deaf Culture. 
   2. The student will compare, contrast, and interpret differences and commonalities among Deaf and hearing cultures.

General Education Students Learning Outcomes

As a Core Curriculum course, students completing this course will demonstrate competence in:

• Civic and Cultural Awareness - Analyzing and critiquing competing perspectives in a democratic society; comparing, contrasting, and interpreting differences and commonalities among peoples, ideas, aesthetic traditions, and cultural practices

• Critical Thinking - Gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and applying information. 

• Personal Responsibility - Identifying and applying ethical principles and practices; demonstrating effective learning, creative thinking, and personal responsibility. 

• Interpersonal Skills - Interacting collaboratively to achieve common goals.

• Written, Oral (sign) and Visual Communication - Communicating effectively, adapting to purpose, structure, audience, and medium.
• Technology Skills - Using appropriate technology to retrieve, manage, analyze, and present information.