ASL 201 - Intermediate American Sign Language I KCC AA/HSL

Institution:

Kapiolani Community College

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Description:

3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab per week Prerequisite(s): ASL 02 or equivalent or instructor consent. In ASL 201, students continue to refine the language skills and knowledge acquired in American Sign Language 101-102. Emphasis is on encouraging students to talk about people and things in a more abstract manner, using more complex grammar, descriptors and conversational strategies. Upon successful completion of ASL 201, the student should be able to: Demonstrate basic, functional conversational skills in ASL through making requests, suggestions and complaints, talking about routines, exchanging complex personal information, and describing locations in detail. Use the ASL syntax learned in ASL 101-102 more accurately. Use conditionals, "when" clauses, descriptive and locative classifiers properly. Recognize and use more complex temporal markers, numbers, role shifting, spatial referencing, temporal sequencing, inflecting verbs, and contrastive structure. Show an increased, intermediate-level vocabulary that includes everyday objects and activities. Comfortably describe family history and countries of origin. Demonstrate the ability to produce the correct signs for various countries and nationalities. Accurately convey life events. Sustain narratives about personal experiences. Demonstrate appropriate social and cultural behaviors in a polite, semi-formal register of ASL. Discuss more aspects of the Deaf Community, its culture and the role ASL plays in the lives of Deaf people. Demonstrate an understanding of several forms of ASL literature. Produce transcriptions of longer ASL texts. Use fingerspelled words and lexical borrowings appropriately. Provide feedback in ASL to classmates during large and small group activities.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

kapiolani.hawaii.edu/page/home

Phone Number:

(808) 734-9000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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