Linguistics

Fall. Credit, three hours. An examination of the various languages and dialects used in American society and the impact that race, ethnicity, and other social variables play on that diversity.

Spring. Credit, four hours. This course introduces students to the foundations of linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics. Additional topics may include orthography, language acquisition, language processing, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

On Demand. Credit, three hours. Prerequisite: LING 201 or ANT 203 or equivalent transfer credit. This course investigates word formation (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax) in the world’s languages.

On Demand. Credit, three hours. Psycholinguistics addresses how language might be realized as a component within the general cognitive system, drawing on linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. The course is based on empirical evidence of how language is comprehended, produced, acquired, and represented. 

On Demand. Credit, three hours. This course is an introduction to second language acquisition (SLA) which seeks to understand the linguistic, psychological, and social processes that underlie the learning and use of one or more additional languages.

On Demand. Credit, three hours. This course offers an overview of sociolinguistics, the study of how linguistic forms and use vary along social, geographic, temporal, and situational variables. Topics may include language variation, multilingualism, language change, identity, and language policy/planning.

On Demand. Credit, three hours. Students learn the grammatical structures of the English language and how those structures have been used differently depending on time, register, and dialect.

On Demand. Credit, one to four hours. This course gives undergraduate students the opportunity to follow a reading plan and/or conduct empirical research under the direction of a faculty member.