Nov 14, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
DSI 1110 - Beginning American Sign Language I
Introduces American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. Encourages interaction with the Deaf community. Focuses on comprehension and production of fingerspelling, introductory numbers, and basic ASL and its grammatical structure.
Requisites: WARNING: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken): CSD 1110
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:
- Attend and support events with members of the Deaf community.
- Demonstrate how to introduce oneself and obtain personal information both expressively and receptively.
- Express cardinal numbers 1-100, age, money, and ordinal numbers as well as ranking in ASL.
- Expressively and receptively discuss routines and activities.
- Expressively and receptively model time signs and the structure of tense in ASL.
- Expressively and receptively use ASL to describe living situations, directions as well as discuss routines, and activities.
- Identify and demonstrate non-manual markers associated with yes/no questions, wh- questions, negation, assertion, affect, topic-comment, rhetorical questions, and conditionals.
- Identify at least ten ways in which Deaf Culture is unique.
- Identify differences between the meaning of Deaf, deaf, and hearing impaired.
- Research and explain educational settings for D/deaf individuals.
- Sign expressively and receptively identify and describe others, relationships, and occupations.
- Utilize the use of signing space, spatial referencing, and contrastive structure.
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