Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Critical Thinking
- Apply basic critical thinking skills to begin to solve problems and make sense of complex issues.
- Professional Readiness
- Collaborate with others and continue to use American Sign Language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.
- Interpersonal Skills
- Control language sufficiently to interact comprehendingly with those who are unfamiliar with language learners.
- Maintain communication by using a range of strategies such as requesting clarification, repeating, restating, rephrasing and circumlocuting.
- Demonstrate emerging ability to participate in discussions about issues beyond the concrete and to provide opinions on these issues.
- Identify and produce comprehensible discourse in full paragraphs that are organized, detailed and cohesive.
- Interpretive Skills
- Comprehend main ideas and supporting details of narrative, descriptive and persuasive video texts on various topics, and summarize them in American Sign Language.
- Comprehend video texts pertaining to real-world topics of general interest.
- Derive meaning from video texts by understanding sequencing, time frames and chronology, and by classifying words or concepts according to word order or grammatical use.
- Demonstrate knowledge of an increasing number of cultural and linguistic differences when discussing current events, social issues, popular culture, and the arts.
- Presentational Skills
- Present prepared or spontaneous information on familiar and some unfamiliar topics through signed language in all major time frames such as present, past, and future.
- Effectively create signed messages in both personal and general contexts.
- Produce full paragraphs that are understandable, organized, and detailed.
- Intercultural Communication
- Discover familiarities and differences between products and practices to help relate to perspectives in native and other cultures using American Sign Language.
- Interact at a functional level in some familiar contexts with people in and from other cultures using American Sign Language and appropriate learned behaviors.
- Recognize, compare, and contrast different cultures within target language populations.
- Integrated Topics and Perspectives
- Role shift and constructed dialogue/constructed action
- Describing the location of buildings, objects, and/or rooms in relation to a specified point
- Depicting verbs and descriptive signs
- Utilizing three or more different perspectives to describe and talk about people and things
- Elements of conversation and discourse
- Examples of ASL Literature: ABC, single-handshape, and number stories
- Discussing events in past, present, and future tense.