ASL 1011 - American Sign Language I

1. Discussing Living Situations
2. Exchanging Personal Information
3. Introducing Oneself
4. Receptive/Expressive Fingerspelling/Numbers
5. Storytelling
6. Talking about Activities
7. Talking about Family
8. Deaf Culture
   1. Introduction to Deaf Community Video
   2. Deaf Community Social Function Experience
9. Linguistic Differences between ASL and English
10. Vocabulary

1. demonstrate initial knowledge of content-specific commands, questions, and statements in American Sign Language (ASL).
2. show knowledge of vocabulary.
3. demonstrate comprehension and conversation facilitating behaviors.
4. demonstrate comprehension and production of regulating behaviors (i.e. attention getting techniques, turn taking signals, and others).
5. demonstrate comprehension of short narratives and stories in ASL.
6. describe the connection between ASL and Deaf Culture.
7. demonstrate awareness about the use of technology to access and exchange information with and within the Deaf community.
8. recognize differences and similarities between spoken languages and the visual/conceptual structure of ASL.
9. sign and comprehend short dialogues/complete short sentences in ASL.

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