ASL 1150C - Intermediate American Sign Language with Lab

Communications Department

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 64
Effective Term Spring 2026 (660)

Requisites

Prerequisite ASL 1140C with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This course is a continuation of basic American Sign Language (ASL) as used in the Deaf Community. It includes a continued study of ASL grammatical features and structures. Emphasis will be placed upon building an intermediate level of sign lexicon and communication though engaging in discussion and negotiating meaning related to describing people and places, making requests, giving opinions and asking for advice, as well as discussing personal plans and goals. Students will gain awareness of Deaf Culture through connections within the Deaf Community and will investigate the similarities and differences between languages and cultural variations within the Deaf Community. Students will have directed practice with live and recorded ASL on a variety of topics, emphasizing the development of an intermediate level of receptive and expressive conversational practice. Study Abroad opportunities may apply to this course (https://blog.spcollege.edu/international/study-abroad/).

Course Topics

Topic 1
  Study abroad- Costa Rica

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. Students will demonstrate intermediate level proficiency with ASL grammatical features and structures by:
    1. identifying and implementing concepts of time, use of space, and non-manual grammar as related to ASL through practical demonstrations.
    2. recognizing and using examples of descriptive, locative and element classifiers.
    3. developing an intermediate level understanding and utilization of agreement verbs.
    4. fostering an intermediate level awareness of non-manual grammar and non-verbal gestural communication, including mime, pantomime, body language, and facial expression used in ASL.
    5. acquiring an intermediate level receptive and expressive skill in the use of body shifts, sign placement in space, and spatial relations in conversational ASL.
    6. utilizing the various forms of negations common to ASL.
    7. employing interrogative questions and informational questions in ASL.
  2. Students will demonstrate an intermediate level of target vocabulary development through expressive and receptive interaction and participation with course related materials by:
    1. converse using intermediate level signs either manually and/or with technology.
    2. employing intermediate ASL sign vocabulary, including sign modulations, classifier hand-shapes, and conceptually accurate sign choices.
    3. producing intermediate level receptive and expressive fingerspelling skill in conversational ASL.
    4. reflecting intermediate level visual receptive and expressive sign skills for signs presented in simple and complex ASL sentences.
    5. structuring sentences in ASL syntax, using classifiers and temporal elements.
  3. Students will engage in spontaneous dialogues using ASL when provided with contextual topics by:
    1. applying intermediate level ASL conversational skills in a variety of contextual settings.
    2. using semantically correct ASL when translating English idiomatic expressions.
    3. dialoging with others about accepting and declining invitations as well as making plans and cancelling plans.
  4. Students will demonstrate an intermediate level of understanding and appreciation of Deaf Culture though connections within the Deaf Community and will investigate similarities and differences between spoken languages and the visual/conceptual structure of ASL as used within the Deaf Community by:
    1. demonstrating awareness of Deaf Culture through written observation reports of media-generated materials and personal interactive communications with Deaf individuals.
    2. reflecting awareness of Deaf Culture through incorporating culturally sensitive information in signed conversation.
    3. modeling understanding of Deaf Culture by utilizing rules of polite discourse including greetings and leave-takings, making and declining requests, and minimizing interruptions.
    4. distinguishing the importance of name signs in Deaf Culture by acknowledging the origin and use of both arbitrary and descriptive name signs.
    5. explaining the role of information sharing for the common good within Deaf Culture.
    6. recognizing and negotiating cultural behaviors, values, norms and discourse styles within the Deaf Community.
    7. identifying major elements of Deaf Culture such as concepts of time, personal space, and exchanging personal information.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

DBT 12/10/87 Effective Session 19872 SCN Change 12/15/87 Effective Session 19881 DBT 10/20/92 Effective Session 19923 C&I 10/24/95; DBT 11/21/95 Effective Session 19961 SCNS change 12-31-98 Effective Session 19991. C&I 10/26/99, DBT 11/16/99, Effective Session 20001. C&I 4/25/06, BOT 6/20/06, Effective 20062(0375. Prefix and # changed by State Field Review eff20081(0400). 3 Year Review due 2009 (on existing list) 3-Year Review 2009. C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2008 (400).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2026 (660)

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