Oct 30, 2025

Catalog 2024-2025

Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu)

ASL 213 American Sign Language 6

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Continues development of expressive and receptive skills learned in ASL 212 and the completion of the second year courses. Expands vocabulary and introduces forms of ASL narrative and dialogue. Advances study in complex grammatical structures. Shares personal experiences with other people about misadventures and childhood incidents. Talks about shopping for bargains and how to save, spend, and make investments. Prepares for future decisions that may impact student’s lives. Discusses complaints about health or on-going personal problems. Demonstrates how to describe an object fluently by visualizing the object, choosing appropriate classifiers, and using the interplay of the weak and dominant hands. Uses total immersion of ASL for classroom interaction and instruction. Course has an online component that requires students to use internet for coursework and workbook assignments.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of ASL 212 within the past year; and internet skills; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes:

Describe an incident involving a horse, a bicycle, and an automobile(s) using basic action sequence.
Give a presentation by describing an accident that they have experienced.
Demonstrate basic money signs related to income and methods of payments.
Discuss banking services and financial situations.
Explain housing and transportation situations to make major decisions.
Identify ailments including complaining, making suggestions, and requests.
Exhibit inflections for temporal aspect and spatial agreement.
Describe and identify the physical appearance of the things around us and discriminate between things or define them.
Demonstrate descriptions with advanced classifiers from general to specific objects.
Determine the proper perspectives to describe various objects.

Statewide General Education Outcomes

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life; and
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Content Outline

Grammar
- Temporal aspect
  - Recurring
  - Continuous
  - Inflecting verbs
- Topicalization
  - Conditional sentences
- Role shift to change perspectives and show attitude and reaction
- Spatial agreement
- Advanced Classifiers
  - Movement agreement
  - Shapes, sizes, different perspectives, patterns, textures, symmetrical, and asymmetrical
  - Lids, pumps, handles
  - Sequence classifiers to describe incident situations
  - Include varying expressions and speed of signs to indicate confusion, things out of control, and speed
- Numbers with advanced money
  - Combinations between hundreds and billions
Sentence Structures
- Describe object
- Ask what a word means
- Define how tools, toy, appliance, and furniture look
- Describe food by how it is made
- Make suggestions
- Complain about others
- Request help with tasks
- Request time change
- Make indirect request
- Ask for permission
- Action sequence involving incidents
Conversation Strategies
- Asking for clarification
- Clarifying
- Agreeing
- Declining
- Hedging
- Conversation regulators
Vocabulary
- Purchases, income, methods of payment, debts, bills, and contributions
- Home-related topics
- Features of a car
- Common car problems
- Making life changes
  - Choosing a college
  - Changing jobs and relationships
  - Moving