HIST284

Kapiolani Community College

ASL 201 Intermediate American Sign Language I (4) KCC AA/HSL (formerly AA/FL)
3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab per week
Prerequisite(s): ASL 102 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.

	ASL 201 Intermediate American Sign Language I (4) KCC AA/HSL (formerly AA/FL) 3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab per week Prerequisite(s): ASL 102 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. Kapi'olani Community College - © 1999, 2006. All Rights Reserved.