MLL 332 - Advanced American Sign Language II

Units: 4
Content area will focus on transitioning from communicative competence in discussing concrete subjects to being able to using language in more abstract contexts.

Prerequisites: MLL 331.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Comprehend and converse ASL messages through classroom and electronic means. Express oneself in front of any type of audience with conversational fluency.
Debate and exchange information and opinions on topics of Deaf culture and related products and compare to other cultures (via Deaf films).
Collect and exchange information and opinions on topics of distinctive viewpoints of Deaf people.
Participate and exchange information and opinions on topics of other disciplines.
Debate and exchange about comparing and contrasting ASL with English.
Exchange information and opinions in non-classroom conversational experience with Deaf community.
Also, using ASL to access information about Deaf culture/community that will lead to life-long learning experiences.
Students will perform grammatical ASL skills such as: Analyze and discuss meanings of ASL semantics, syntax, and grammar.
Give presentation using increasingly more complex non-manual signals (NMS) for ASL grammatical, emphasis, and emotional purposes.
Perform structure of ASL grammar correctly such as topic-comment structure, conditional clause, and narrative structure as well as turn-taking techniques.
Narrate the information using role shifting, spatial agreement, information organization, and using narrative framework.
Use appropriate handshape for specific ASL classifier and rules of classifiers with real world orientation effectively by using perspectives of signer. Use appropriate and accurate use of conversational regulators.