At the end of this course students should be able to:

1. Describe effects of Deaf folklore on survival of ASL and Deaf Culture.

2. Explain factors influencing the construction of ASL and types of variations.

3. Identify and produce basic sentence types in ASL.

4. Describe and utilize movements of inflections for temporal aspect.

5. Demonstrate and recognize more complex grammatical features, including noun/verb 
pairs, compounds, contractions, loan signs, classifiers, and plurals.

6. Receptively exhibit mastery of ASL dialogues and narratives.

7. Expressively exhibit mastery of ASL dialogues and narratives.

8.  Explore the culture and daily lives of deaf people in America and in other 
countries where sign language is used.

9.  Explore differences in technologies that influence communication in American and 
global Deaf cultures.

I. What is ASL?
   A. History
   B. Role of ASL in Deaf community
   C. Bilingualism and language contact

II. Sign formation and variation

III. Sign types
     A. Noun/Verb pairs
     B. Compounds
     C. Contractions
     D. Loan signs
     E. Idioms
     F. Classifiers
     G. Plurals

IV. Time signs and modulations
    A. Non-manual adverbs
    B. Regularity
    C. Duration

V. Numbering
   A. Money
   B. Age
   C. Ordinal
   D. Cardinal

VI. Sentence Types
    A. Questions
    B. Statements
    C. Commands
    D. Rhetorical
    E. Conditionals

VII. Role shifting

VIII. Adjectives and attributing qualities to others

Cross Cultural Issues
(1) Compare cultural differences among deaf Communities in developed countries and 
developing countries (e.g., Deaf women wearing niqab/hijab in Muslim countries and 
how this clothing item influences their ability to use facial expressions).
(2) Compare and contrast available technologies such as closed captioning, 
videophones, etc. in American and developing countries (e.g., New Zealand does not 
offer or mandate closed captioning and videophones for the Deaf).