Apr 18, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-23 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-23 [Archived Catalog]

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CSD 3120 - Advanced American Sign Language II


This course is the final class in the sequence of six American Sign Language (ASL) courses. The advanced level classes provide students the opportunity to further develop more complex comprehension and production skills in ASL. This course is designed for students to develop mastery knowledge and proficiency of ASL and its subcomponents (e.g., vocabulary, morphology, grammar) and conversational proficiency with deaf signers within the context of the deaf culture. Course represents the capstone of the ASL course sequence and thus requires students to demonstrate ASL proficiency in real life situations.

Requisites: CSD 3110
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the value of American Sign Language (ASL) literature to the deaf community.
  • Students will be able to identify ASL storytelling techniques used in telling stories.
  • Students will be able to incorporate the use of classifiers, role-shifting and non-manual markers in ASL storytelling.
  • Students will be able to illustrate how to adapt written literature of fairytales and folktales to ASL version.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate high level of production skills using correct grammatical structure through presentations and in a variety of discourse levels including real world application.
  • Students will be able to analyze, translate and produce conceptually accurate English idioms into ASL.



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