MLL 131 - Elementary American Sign Language I: Language and Humanities

1. Demonstrate in-depth conversational and narrative skills in ASL through discussion topics:
   • getting to know you and giving information about yourself
   • introducing oneself
   • recognizing exact and mirror movements (signers’ perspective)
   • learning certain handshapes for numbers and letters
   • narrating experience with languages
   • identifying and describing people
   • discussing one’s residence and living situations
2. Use grammatical features in ASL through classroom activities and assignments/projects:
   • five parameters
   • appropriate non-manuals signals (NMS) for wh-questions
   • appropriate non-manuals signals (NMS) for Y/N questions
   • contrastive structure
   • signer’s perspective
   • using object-subject-verb (OSV) syntax order
   • use of space/spatial reference
   • recognize differences between sign and basic classifiers
   • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of:
   • conversation behaviors
   • basic understanding of the linguistic structure of ASL
   • basic knowledge of ASL literature and history
   • Deaf culture and the Deaf community

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.