Syllabus- Summer 2013

CVCC East Campus Continuing Education

Summer 2013

Course: Sign Language Introduction CSP-4589-200 (68008)          Course Day and Time:         Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm Classroom:    East Campus Room 958                                Instructor:     Courtney Sajben                     Instructor Contact- courtneysajben@hotmail.com

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course provides an introduction to:

A.  American Sign Language (ASL), the language used by the Deaf community in the United States and by those with whom they interact.

                        B.  The culture of the U.S. Deaf community.

Students will develop beginning receptive and expressive skills in ASL, involving such areas as number usage, basic time and money concepts, fingerspelling, and basic questions, statements, and negations.  This class is conducted in ASL with supplemental mime, drawing, etc. 

REQUIRED TEXTS AND SUPPLIES:

Smith, C., Lentz, E., and Mikos, K.  (2008). Signing Naturally, Student Workbook. San Diego, CA:  DawnSign Press. (Units 1-6)

1 inch 3 ring binder with paper for note taking

COURSE EXPECTATIONS:

This class will require that you turn your voices off at appropriate times. I have decided not to make this a full immersion class being that it is an introductory class.  Colored nail polish, low cut shirts, heavy jewelry, heavily patterned shirts, or other visually distracting items are a form of visual noise in the signing community and will make it difficult to see and understand your signs. Please be sensitive of this when attending class. Even though this is not a for-credit class I will treat it as though it is and will take my role as a teacher and your role as a student very seriously. This will be a very relaxed and fun environment but at the same time I expect that you will leave with as thorough an understanding of ASL and Deaf Culture as an 8 week class will allow.  

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1.  Communication (receptive, expressive, and pragmatic):

At the end of the course, the students will

F  Fingerspell and recognize the alphabet by rote (A,B,C,…) and dictated at random (F, B, T…)

F  Fingerspell and recognize simple one-syllable words, familiar patterns, common names, words containing double letters (medial and final), and common lexicalized/loan signs (ng, dog, bus, etc.)

F  Recognize and correctly sign numbers used in:

F  Age, street address, phone number, number of objects (i.e. things,             people)

F  List, explain, and demonstrate the 5 parameters of a sign (hs, po, loc, mov,  NMM’s)

F  Describe their family by listing members, tell roles within the family (brother, father, sister, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin) and ask and answer simple questions using these concepts

F  Describe rooms and items (including people, animals, food, furniture, tools/materials) within a house, a school, a library, a restaurant, and an office, and ask and answer simple questions using these concepts

F  Ask and answer questions related to time periods within a day (morning, noon, afternoon, night), days of the week (Sunday through Saturday), and activities within a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, sleep, wake, get up, wash, eat)

F  Answer simple yes, no questions related to items present or not present (You like Suzy?  You eat ice cream?); and make and understand affirmative/negative statements.  Uses appropriate NMM’s with these, with cueing.

F  Ask and answer simple wh-questions (who, what).  Use appropriate NMM’s with these, with cueing.

F  Indicate possession involving people present and answer questions correctly regarding possession and people present (My book.  Your coat.  Their papers.)

F  Ask and answer simple questions related to color, gender, simple emotions/feelings/attributes (angry, happy, sad, tired, warm, cold, slow, fast, tall, short, thin, fat, hungry, full, thirsty, hurt)

F  Ask for help and repetition.  Respond to requests for help and repetition

F  Give and respond to simple commands (Give me the glass.  Open the book.)

F  Create spontaneous simple sentences and questions containing subjects and verbs (walk, run, sit, stand, work, study, read, learn, drink, play, teach, watch, visit, chat, talk, see, look-at)

F  With cueing, utilize simple directional verbs to indicate subject and object (I-help-you.  You-give-me.  Nice to-meet-you.)

F  With forewarning and practice, recite a presentation of at least 5 sentences.

F  With cueing, be able to initiate and maintain a conversation through 4 exchanges.

2.  Culture

At the end of the class, the student will:

            F Explain that sign languages differ by country

F Draw and explain a basic sociogram of the Deaf community, including the terms

    DOD, HOH, and Deaf vs. deaf.

            F List examples of differences in perspective between people who are deaf and

    auditory/oral, Deaf and using ASL, hearing parents of children who are deaf, and

    children of d/Deaf parents (CODA’s)

Date	Coursework- * subject to change
6/04/13	Sign In, Introductions, Intro to Deaf Culture activity, fingerspelling review with alphabet,  Unit 1. Assignment given.
6/11/13	Fingerspelling and vocubulary Quiz, Sign Packet Review (people, family, questions, places) Units 2,3, Shape drawing activity, assignment given
6/18/13	Fingerspelling and vocabulary Quiz, sign packet questions, Sign Packet (time, numbers) Units 4 and 5, assignment given
6/25/13	Fingerspelling, number and vocabulary Quiz, money, ordinal numbers, continuous time, etc. Sign Packet (feelings), Units 6,7, assignment given
7/02/13	Fingerspelling, time and vocabulary Quiz, review of last 4 weeks, assignment given
7/09/13	NO CLASS J
7/16/13	Fingerspelling and vocabulary Quiz, Units 7 and 8, assignment given
7/23/13	Fingerspelling and vocabulary Quiz, Units 9 and 10, assignment given
7/30/13	Fingerspelling and vocabulary Quiz, Units 11 and 12, assignment given
8/06/13	*possible make-up class for those who missed a class due to vacation or extension to the class for those wanting additional practice