American Sign Language
American Sign Language Department DLOs
DLO1: Student will discriminate between target and source languages.
DLO2: Student will comprehend interpersonal relationships between Deaf and hearing individuals.
DLO3: Student will differentiate between Deaf and hearing cultures.
DLO4: Student will scrutinize linguistic features.
DLO5: Student will assess behavior and group norms, and values.
DLO6: Student will relate solutions for cross-cultural issues.
SLOs by course
ASL 100 – American Sign Language I
1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of vocabulary items from Units 1-4 and
part of Unit 6 of Signing Naturally and DVDs.
2. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of target, content-specific commands,
questions, and statements in ASL.
3. The student will demonstrate comprehension of conversation norms.
4. The student will discover valuable cultural information.
ASL 101 – American Sign Language II
1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of vocabulary items from Units 5-10 and
part of Unit 6 of Signing Naturally and DVDs.
2. The students will demonstrate the ability to recognize and produce complex ASL sentence
structures.
3. The student will demonstrate comprehension and production of conversations and short
narratives
4. The student will discover relevant cultural information.
ASL 102 – Fingerspelling, Numbers and Classifiers
1. The student will demonstrate comprehension of the linguistic rules of fingerspelling, numbers
and classifiers.
2. The student will produce fingerspelling, numbers and classifiers within conversational norms.
3. The student will demonstrate the ability to incorporate contextual clues to aid in closure when
words are missed.
4. The student will, using critical thinking, compare ASL and spoken languages regarding
fingerspelling, numbers and classifiers.
ASL 103 – American Sign Language III
1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of vocabulary items from Units 11-15 of
Signing Naturally and DVDs.
2. The student will demonstrate receptive and expressive mastery of dialogues and short
narratives and/or stories utilizing ASL grammatical features.
3. The student will demonstrate the ability to initiate, conduct and terminate context - specific
conversations with Deaf users or ASL other than the professor.
4. The student will analyze information on Deaf Americans, ASL, and its history.
ASL 104 – American Sign Language IV
1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of vocabulary items from Units 16-20 of
Signing Naturally and DVDs.
2. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of target, content-specific commands,
questions, and statements in ASL.
3. The student will demonstrate comprehension and production of ASL Discourse.
4. The student will examine the history of Deaf Americans and their cultures.
ASL 105 – American Sign Language V
1. The student will demonstrate comprehensive mastery of vocabulary items from Units 21 -25 of
Signing Naturally and DVDs.
2. The student will demonstrate cumulative comprehensive and production of ASL.
3. The student will demonstrate the ability to express self generated stories, narratives, discourse
and others in ASL.
4. The student will relate information, cultures and history of a given topic in ASL.
ASL 110 – Deaf Culture and Community
1. The student will investigate and debate Deaf and hearing cultures.
2. The student will appraise behavior and group norms, values, and common knowledge of Deaf
people.
3. The student will compare attitudes and oppression with the Hearing and Deaf communities.
4. The student will explore the traditions of Deaf people.
ASL 150 – American Sign Language Linguistics
1. The student will analyze and utilize problem-solving skills related to ASL linguistic features.
2. The student will diagram ASL Discourse structures and appraise how this is related to
presentations, narratives and the discussion of hypothetical issues.
3. The student will apply and differentiate phonological, morphological, syntax and semantic
processes.
4. The student will analyze an understanding of sociolinguistic variation in ASL and ASL Discourse.