I. General Information

1. Course Title:
American Sign Language IV

2. Course Prefix & Number:
AMSL 2412

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 4

Lecture Hours: 4

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

In this level 4 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 exchange in-depth personal information, describe and identify shapes, patterns and textures, and sign about weekend activities.  In-depth practice with multiple meaning words in ASL and 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 1414 ASL 4, 3 credits
St. Catherine University, ASL 2120 Intermediate ASL 2, 4 credits
University of Minnesota – Duluth, ASL 3004 Intermediate ASL 2, 3 credits
University of Minnesota, ASL 3704 ASL 4, 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 speak about personal information, describe and identify shapes, patterns and textures, and sign about weekend activities; receptively understand personal information, describe and identify shapes, patterns and textures, and sign about weekend activities.
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 cultural elements which influence relations of societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions. MnTC Goal 8
• Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social and linguistic differences. MnTC Goal 8
• Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future. MnTC Goal 8
• Analize specific problems, illustrating the cultural differences that affect their situation. MnTC Goal 8
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and awareness toward American Deaf Culture.
• Show advanced knowledge of Wh- and Yes/ No questions with the appropriate non-manual markers.
• Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of role-shifting and it's uses in ASL.
• Show the ability to produce appropriate ASL sentence structures while asking for clarification in ASL.
• Produce appropriate ASL sequencing.
• Understand issues surrounding audism
• Use quantifiers in ASL.
• Demonstrate appropriate conversation strategies (confirming, correcting and opening conversations).

V. Topical Outline

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

1. Lecture Sessions

1. EXCHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION: LIFE EVENTS
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Ask/Tell
     • Telling about life events
     • Narrating family immigration and nationality history
     • Self correcting and elaboratin
   • GRAMMAR:
     • WHEN clauses
     • Sequencing events
     • Contrastive structure
     • Possessive forms
     • Descriptive and locative classifiers
     • Number 110-119, dates and addresses
2. DESCRIBING AND IDENTIFYING THINGS
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Asking what a word means
     • Giving definitions
     • Describing object
   • GRAMMAR:
     • Descriptive classifiers for shapes, patterns and textures
     • Instrument classifiers
     • Weak hand as a reference
     • Topic-comment structure
     • Non-manual markers: “oo”, “mo”, “cha” and “mm”
     • Money numbers
3. TALKING ABOUT THE WEEKEND
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Asking about the weekend
     • Describe weekend activities
     • Express opinions/feelings
     • Tell about disrupted plans
   • GRAMMAR:
     • Temporal sequencing
     • Time signs with durative aspect
     • Element classifiers
     • Numbers 120-1,000
4. CUMULATIVE REVIEW:
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Directing and maintaining attention
     • Controlling the pace of conversation
     • Resuming conversation
     • Responding to information
   • GRAMMAR:
     • Confirming questions
     • Locative classifiers
     • Descriptive classifiers
     • Instrument classifiers
5. MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions