I. General Information

1. Course Title:
American Sign Language II

2. Course Prefix & Number:
AMSL 1412

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 4

Lecture Hours: 4

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

In this level 2 introductory course, you will engage in receptive and expressive language readiness activities as well as continuing to learn vocabulary, basic use of ASL grammatical structure and signing space, conversational regulators, fingerspelling and introductory aspects.  Students will learn to give directions, describe physical and personal characteristics of others, make requests and talk about family, routines and occupations.  Basic aspects of Deaf Culture will also be integrated throughout the course. MnTC Goal 8

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

St. Paul College, ASLS 1412 ASL 2, 3 credits
St. Catherine University, ASL 1120 Beginning ASL 2, 4 credits
St. Cloud State University, CSD 271 ASL 2, 3 credits
Bemidji State University, ED 1112 or ML1112 ASL 2, 3 credits
University of Minnesota – Duluth, ASL 2002 Beginning ASL 2, 3 credits
University of Minnesota, ASL 1702 ASL 2, 5 credits

2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Deaf Studies, Certificate
Child Development/ASL, AAS Degree

2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 8 – Global Perspective

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate oral communication skills	Expressively sign directions, describe others, make requests, talk about family and occupations, and describe personal characteristics; receptively understand signed directions, descriptions of others, requests, talk about family and occupations, and describe personal characteristics.
Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills	Demonstrate appropriate conversational turn taking behaviors in ASL while also using appropriate attention getting strategies.
Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments	Identify common characteristics associated with Deaf culture.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.  MnTC Goal 8
• Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.  MnTC Goal 8
• Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social and linguistic differences.  MnTC Goal 8
• Analyze specific problems, illustrating the cultural, economic and political differences that affect their situation.  MnTC Goal 8
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and awareness toward American Deaf Culture. 
• Show basic knowledge of descriptive classifiers in American Sign Language. 
• Acquire basic knowledge of ordinal numbers in American Sign Language. 
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of the interpreting profession. 
• Appropriately demonstrate various sentence types in ASL including contrastive structure, and topic/comment sentences. 
• Demonstrate appropriate spatial referencing, listing and possessive pronouns in ASL. 
• Demonstrate an ability to produce inflecting verbs appropriately. 
• Acquire basic knowledge of role-shifting as an aspect of language. 

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. GIVING DIRECTIONS
   • Grammar: Wh-question (WHERE), Ordinal numbers (first thorough fifth), dual personal pronouns, topic comment structure, spatial referencing
   • Conversation strategies- confirming, one-handed signing, interrupting conversations
   • Culture- Cardinal and Ordinal number
   • Food related vocabulary
   • inside vs. outside vocabulary
2. DESCRIBING OTHERS
   • Wh-question: WHO
   • Descriptive classifiers: parts of head, heights and body type, style/pattern of clothing
   • Contrastive structure
   • Topic-comment structure
   • Culture: Identifying Others
3. MAKING REQUESTS
   • Grammar-
   • Spacial verbs
   • Inflecting verbs
   • Spatial referencing
   • Money numbers
   • Topic-comment structure
   • Role shifting
4. TALKING ABOUT FAMILY AND OCCUPATIONS
   • Grammar: Possessive pronouns, dual personal pronouns, age numbers
   • Personal and Possessive pronouns
   • Age Numbers
   • Family trees
5. ATTRIBUTING QUALITIES TO OTHERS
   • Grammar- role shifting, contrastive structure
6. TALKING ABOUT ROUTINES
   • Grammar- temporal sequencing, time concepts, wh-questions, clock numbers

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions