Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Winter 2020

Course Number:
ASL 265
Course Title:
Fingerspelling and Numbers for ASL Students
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture Hours:
20
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Develops fundamental expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills for the intermediate signer. Presents rules for ASL fingerspelling and number production in context. Improves ability to comprehend fingerspelling. Develops cloze skills (filling in missed letters by using contextual clues and background knowledge), and continues development of letter and number production as begun in core ASL courses.

Addendum to Course Description

All lectures and class activities will be conducted in ASL.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

Use fingerspelling when linguistically appropriate

Apply principles of ASL numbering systems correctly

Produce fingerspelled words and numbers with correct hand and arm position, palm orientation, handshape and movement

Use cloze skills to determine semantic content of fingerspelled words Recognize the difference between rapid, careful and lexicalized fingerspelling

Course Activities and Design

This course will include live and videotaped demonstrations, drills, lecture, student presentations, games and other hands-on activities.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Quizzes and exams assess receptive skills, and videotaped student narratives for assessment of expressive skills.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

? Fingerspelling of names, proper nouns, place names, and technical terms? Lexicalized fingerspelling? ASL numbering systems:counting numbersinformational numbersordinal numbersranking numbersage numbersmoney numbersclock timecalendar timepronoun numbersnumbers for height (people)numbers for weight (people)measurement numberssports numbersmathematical numbers