ASL 1140C - Basic American Sign Language with Lab

Communications Department

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 77
Effective Term Fall 2016 (520)

Course Description

This course is an introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) as used in the Deaf Community and includes an overview of ASL grammatical features and structures. Emphasis will be placed upon building novice level of sign lexicon and communication through engaging in discussion and negotiating meaning related to personal preferences, family, familiar topics, needs and feelings. Students will gain awareness of Deaf Culture through connections within the Deaf Community and will investigate the similarities and differences between languages and culture within the Deaf Community. Students will have directed practice with live and recorded ASL on a variety of topics, emphasizing the development of a novice level of receptive and expressive conversational practice.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. Students will demonstrate a novice level of proficiency with ASL grammatical features and structures by:
    1. producing manual and non-manual target, content-specific commands, questions, and statements in ASL.
    2. comprehending short expressive and receptive dialogues in ASL as directed by the instructor.
    3. improving receptive understanding and expressive skill in basic grammatical patterns in media generated and in signed classroom materials as evaluated by instructor and student.
    4. demonstrating use of basic sentence types and structures through media production and in testing.
  2. Students will demonstrate a novice level of target vocabulary development through receptive and expressive interaction and participation with course related material by:
    1. identifying the appropriate sign selection for answers to why, when, where, what and who questions.
    2. recognizing variations in sign selections for a response to a question.
    3. distinguishing among sociocultural terms related to Deaf culture and to American Sign Language
    4. using conceptually accurate vocabulary in comprehension and production of regulating behaviors (i.e., attention getting and turn-taking).
  3. Students will engage in discussion and negotiate meaning related to personal preferences, familiar topics, needs and feelings by:
    1. demonstrating conversation facilitating behaviors in communication.
    2. identifying comprehension and production of regulating behaviors (i.e., attention getting techniques, turn-taking signals, etc.).
    3. establishing a novice level of comprehension with live and/or recorded narratives.
    4. reflecting mastery of receptive and expressive skills in simple conversation messages in ASL and through testing.
  4. Students will gain awareness of Deaf Culture through connections within the Deaf Community and will investigate similarities and differences between language use and culture within the Deaf Community by:
    1. attending social functions/events in the Deaf Community and reporting on the communication activities in which they engaged.
    2. observing and discussing simple patterns of behavior for interacting in various settings, such as in classroom activities and at Deaf Community events.
    3. identifying and making use of appropriate communications strategies for greeting and leave-taking, attention getting and use of names (i.e., name signs) in classroom activities.
    4. analyzing the current role of technology use in the Deaf Culture and the impact that has on communication.

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 1/22/87 Effective 2/16/87 SCN Change 9/10/87 Effective Session 19881 DBT 10/20/92 Effective Session 19922 SCNS number change 12-31-98 Effective Session 19991. Was SPA 1380; changed by State. 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/# changed by State Field Review Effective 20081(0400). 3-Year Review 2009. C&I Approval: 04/25/2006, BOT Approval: 06/20/2006, Effective Term: Fall 2008 (400).
C&I Approval: 11/20/2015, BOT Approval: 03/15/2016, Effective Term: Fall 2016 (520)

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  1. American Sign Language Studies (SLIP-TR) (670) (Active)
  2. Architecture (ARCHIT-TR) (670) (Active)
  3. Art Education (ARTED-TR) (670) (In Review)
  4. Associate in Arts Degree (GEN-AA) (670) (Active)
  5. Biology (BIO-TR) (670) (Active)
  6. Biology (BIO-TR) (670) (Draft)
  7. Biotechnology (BIOT-TR) (670) (Active)
  8. Business Administration (BUS-TR) (670) (Active)
  9. Chemistry BS (CHEMBS-TR) (670) (Active)
  10. Communication (SPC-TR) (670) (Active)
  11. Computer & Information Science (COMSC-TR) (670) (Active)
  12. Construction Technology (BCNST-TR) (670) (Active)
  13. Criminology (CRIM-TR) (670) (Active)
  14. Cybersecurity (CYSEC-TR) (670) (Active)
  15. Digital Media (DIGME-TR) (670) (Active)
  16. Economics (ECON-TR) (670) (Active)
  17. Education (EDU-TR) (670) (Active)
  18. Educational Studies Early Childhood Education (PRESCHL-TR) (670) (Active)
  19. Educational Studies Interdisciplinary (IDS-TR) (670) (Active)
  20. Educational Studies Training & Development (TRNDEV-TR) (670) (Active)
  21. Engineering (ENGINE-TR) (670) (Active)
  22. English (ENGLISH-TR) (670) (Active)
  23. Environmental Science (EVSC-TR) (670) (Active)
  24. FAMU Accounting (FMACC-TR) (670) (Active)
  25. FAMU Biology (FMBIO-TR) (670) (Active)
  26. FAMU Criminal Justice (FMCRIM-TR) (670) (Active)
  27. FAMU Health Science, Pre-Physical Therapy (FMDPT-TR) (670) (Active)
  28. FAMU Journalism (FMJOU-TR) (670) (Active)
  29. FAMU Mechanical Engineering (FMENGIN-TR) (670) (Active)
  30. Fire Officer Leadership (FOL-TR) (670) (Active)
  31. Florida Gulf Coast University Accounting (FGCUAC-TR) (670) (Active)
  32. Florida Gulf Coast University Analytics and Informatics (FGCUAN-TR) (670) (Active)
  33. Florida Gulf Coast University Biology (FGCUBIO-TR) (670) (Active)
  34. Florida Gulf Coast University Civil Engineering (FGCUCE-TR) (670) (Active)
  35. Florida Gulf Coast University Computer Science (FGCUCS-TR) (670) (Active)
  36. Florida Gulf Coast University Construction Management (FGCUCM-TR) (670) (Active)
  37. Florida Gulf Coast University Digital Media Design (FGCUDM-TR) (670) (Active)
  38. Florida Gulf Coast University Environmental Engineering (FGCUENV-TR) (670) (Active)
  39. Florida Gulf Coast University Finance (FGCUFIN-TR) (670) (Active)
  40. Florida Gulf Coast University Marine Science (FGCUMA-TR) (670) (Active)
  41. Florida Gulf Coast University Marketing (FGCUMKT-TR) (670) (Active)
  42. Florida Gulf Coast University Mathematics (FGCUMT-TR ) (670) (Active)
  43. Florida Gulf Coast University Software Engineering (FGCUSE-TR) (670) (Active)
  44. Florida Gulf Coast University Supply Chain Management (FGCUSCM-TR) (670) (Active)
  45. Health Sciences (HSA-TR) (670) (Active)
  46. Human Services (HUMSVC-TR) (670) (Active)
  47. Management & Organizational Leadership (MGTORG-TR) (670) (Active)
  48. Mass Communications (COMM-TR) (670) (Active)
  49. Mathematics (MATH-TR) (670) (Active)
  50. Middle Grades General Science Education (5-9) (MGSED-TR) (670) (Active)
  51. Music (MUSIC-TR) (670) (Active)
  52. Music Education (MUSICED-TR) (670) (Active)
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  54. New College of Florida Chemistry (NCFCHM-TR) (670) (Active)
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  59. Paralegal Studies (LEGAL-TR) (670) (Active)
  60. Pharmacy (PHARM-TR) (670) (Active)
  61. Prekindergarten/Primary Education (age 3 through grade 3) with Infused ESOL and Reading Endorsements (PKPED-TR) (670) (Active)
  62. Psychology (PSYCH-TR) (670) (Active)
  63. Public Policy and Administration (PPA-TR) (670) (Active)
  64. Public Safety Administration (PSA-TR) (670) (Active)
  65. Secondary Education Mathematics (MTSED-TR) (670) (Active)
  66. Secondary English Education with Reading and ESOL Endorsement (ENGEDR-TR) (670) (Active)
  67. Social Work (SOCIAL-TR) (670) (Active)
  68. Studio Art BFA (ARTBFA-TR) (670) (Active)
  69. Sustainability Management (SUSMGT-TR) (670) (Active)
  70. Technology Development & Management (TMGT-TR) (670) (Active)
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  74. USF St. Petersburg - Anthropology (FSPANTH-TR) (670) (Active)
  75. USF St. Petersburg - Biology (FSPBIO-TR) (670) (Active)
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  77. USF St. Petersburg - Criminology (FSPCRIM-TR) (670) (Active)
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  81. USF St. Petersburg - History (FSPHIS-TR) (670) (Active)
  82. USF St. Petersburg - Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (FSPIDS-TR) (670) (Active)
  83. USF St. Petersburg - Management (FSPMGT-TR) (670) (Active)
  84. USF St. Petersburg - Marine Biology (FSPMABI-TR) (670) (Active)
  85. USF St. Petersburg - Marketing (FSPMAR-TR) (670) (Active)
  86. USF St. Petersburg - Political Science (FSPPOLS-TR) (670) (Active)
  87. USF St. Petersburg - Psychology (FSPPSY-TR) (670) (Active)
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  91. USF Tampa - Anthropology (FTANTH-TR) (670) (Active)
  92. USF Tampa - Art History (FTARHIS-TR) (670) (Active)
  93. USF Tampa - Biology (FTBIO-TR) (670) (Active)
  94. USF Tampa - Biomedical Sciences (FTBIOMD-TR) (670) (Active)
  95. USF Tampa - Business Analytics and Information Systems (FTISM-TR) (670) (Active)
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  97. USF Tampa - Computer Engineering (FTCOEN-TR) (670) (Active)
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  100. USF Tampa - Cybersecurity (FTCYSEC-TR) (670) (Active)
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  103. USF Tampa - Finance (FTFIN-TR) (670) (Active)
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  112. USF Tampa - Political Science (FTPOLS-TR) (670) (Active)
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