American Sign Language I

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate an awareness and respect for the language and the culture of the Deaf community.

• Compare and contrast Deaf culture with other cultures in terms of group norms, traditions, languages, values, behavior, and identification.

• Use appropriate rules for social interaction when Deaf individuals are present.

• Converse in American Sign Language to introduce oneself, appropriately sign greetings and leave takings, ask for help, discuss daily routines, impart personal information such as addresses, telephone numbers and town of residence at a beginning level.

• Demonstrate the ability to use turn-taking skills and backchannel feedback when conversing with a Deaf person, as well as the ability to repair communication breakdowns.

• Identify and use correct ASL grammatical features for question forms, assertion, negation, referents, and topic/comment information.

• Identify and use spatial agreement when communicating expressively and correctly visualize the signer’s perspective when receiving spatial information.

• Identify and use classifiers appropriate to a beginner’s level.

• Demonstrate correct production and receptive knowledge of approximately 1,000 sign concepts.

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the manual alphabet and number system of ASL.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Tests	30%
100 Series	40%
Homework	30%

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Signing Naturally Level 1 (UNCG Bookstore: ISBN 13: 9781581212358)