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 advanced level.
- Interpersonal Skills
- Control language sufficiently to be easily understood by those interacting with advanced language learners.
- Ask for clarification, self-correction or restatement when not understood, and circumlocute to maintain conversation.
- Sustain spontaneous signed conversations and discussions on familiar and some unfamiliar concrete topics.
- Discuss and explain information, incorporating various time frames, with a series of connected sentences, paragraphs and probing questions.
- Interact and negotiate to resolve an unexpected complication that arises in a familiar situation, providing detailed explanations and offering a variety of resolutions.
- Interpretive Skills
- Demonstrate evidence of the ability to identify the underlying message and some supporting details across time frames in informational and fictional video texts and other forms of media.
- Show understanding of cultural and linguistic differences when discussing current events, social issues, popular culture, and the arts.
- Identify main ideas and supporting details in ASL literary forms.
- Demonstrate sufficient control of language (vocabulary, structures, conventions of signed language, etc.) to understand fully and with ease more complex and descriptive texts with connected language and cohesive devices.
- Presentational Skills
- Present relevant evidence of the ability to tell or retell a story based on concrete experiences in academic, social and professional settings using organized paragraphs.
- Demonstrate the ability to create detailed messages in context relevant to oneself, to general interest and to work-related topics.
- Present an argument with supporting evidence based on concrete experiences in academic, social and professional settings using organized paragraphs.
- Intercultural Communication
- Suspend judgment and adapt language while critically examining products and practices to help relate to perspectives in native and other cultures using the target language.
- Interact with individuals from other cultures using American Sign Language at a functional level while adhering to basic social and professional norms and etiquette.
- Interact in complex situations to ensure a shared understanding of culture.
- Integrated Topics and Perspectives
- Utilizing the weak signing hand as a reference
- Conveying the process by which one makes major decisions, including choosing a career, purchasing a home, and starting a family.
- Identifying and describing the linguistic elements involved with extended discourse in ASL
- Presenting positive and negative attributes about someone or something they know
- Demonstrating the ability to plan a trip including negotiating locations, travel methods, activities, timeframe and budget.
- Utilizing depicting signs