ASL 122: American Sign Language II – 5 credits

• Prerequisite: ASL 121 or demonstration of basic receptive skills by passing the ASL 121 proficiency exam
• Required material: Learning American Sign Language, by Tom Humphries and Carol Padden
• Course Description
• Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop a basic syntactic knowledge of American Sign Language and vocabulary, expressive skills and intermediate conversational skills. Vital aspects of deaf culture and community are incorporated.
  No voice interpreting will be provided at anytime during class.
• Student Competencies: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
  1. Use appropriate attention-getting and attending techniques
  2. Maintain an appropriate signing space
  3. Demonstrate ability to carry on more advanced conversations about family, routine activities, occupations, technological devices used by deaf persons, and giving directions.
  4. Use various classifiers appropriately in context: descriptive, locative, semantic, body and body part, instrument and plural classifiers
  5. Use correct syntax for these sentences types: negation, yes/no questions, wh-word questions, topicalized sentences and rhetorical questions.
  6. Recognize colloquial signs and idiomatic expressions used in context.
  7. Describe how American Sign Language developed as a language, and the role of ASL in the Deaf community.