I. General Information

1. Course Title:
American Sign Language III

2. Course Prefix & Number:
AMSL 2410

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 4

Lecture Hours: 4

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

In this level 3 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 describe placement and give directions, make requests, complaints and suggestions, ask for permission and clarification, tell about life events, nationalities and family history.  In depth practice with multiple meaning words in ASL and basic aspects of Deaf Culture will also be integrated throughout the course. MnTC Goals 6 and 8

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

No placement tests required

Score:

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 1413 ASL 3, 3 credits
St. Catherine University, ASL 2110 Intermediate ASL 1, 4 credits
University of Minnesota – Duluth, ASL 2002 Intermediate ASL 1, 3 credits
University of Minnesota, ASL 3703 ASL 3, 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

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

• Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts
• 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 describe placement and give directions, make requests, complaints and suggestions, ask for permission and clarification, tell about life events, nationalities and family history; receptively understand description of placement and give directions, make requests, complaints and suggestions, ask for permission and clarification, tell about life events, nationalities and family history.
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 6, 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
• Analyze specific problems, illustrating the cultural and economic differences that affect their situation.  MnTC Goal 8
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and awareness of American Deaf Culture through works in the arts and humanities. MnTC Goal 6  
• Demonstrate understanding of the creative process required to interpret songs and literature into Amercian Sign Language. MnTC Goal 6 
• Evaluate and analyze visual works of art created by Deaf artists and performers. MnTC Goal 6
• Develop an advanced knowledge of classifiers including locative classifiers. 
• Demonstrate appropriate use of locative classifiers in ASL. 
• Demonstrate the ability to confirm, qualify and contradict with appropriate ASL sentence structures. 
• Use advanced contrastive role shifting appropriately. 
• Demonstrate advanced understanding of the interpreting profession
• Use appropriate ASL sentence structure including when clauses, conditional sentences and sequencing. 
• Demonstrate appropriate usage of inflecting verbs in ASL (recurring, continuous and temporal). 

V. Topical Outline

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

1. Lecture Sessions

1. LOCATING THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Give Reasons
     • Make Requests
     • Asking where
     • Giving locations
     • Correcting and confirming information
   • GRAMMAR:
     • Topic-Comment Structure
     • Dominant and non-dominant hand positions
     • Locative classifiers
     • Yes/No questions
     • Wh-Word questions
   • Ordinal numbers 1-1,000
2. COMPLAINING, MAKING SUGGESTIONS AND REQUESTS
   • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
     • Complaints
     • Suggestions
     • Requests
     • Asking for permission
     • Expressing concern
     • Agreeing/declining
     • Asking for clarification
   • GRAMMAR:
     • Recurring time signs
     • Continuous time signs
     • Temporal Aspect- recurring, continuous
     • Inflecting verbs
     • Role shifting
     • Conditional sentences
     • Clock numbers
3. MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions