Lx R1B-001
Endangered Languages: Why does linguistic diversity matter?
Instructor: TBD
Session A: May 23 2022 - Jul 01 2022
M, TU, W, TH
10:00 am - 11:59 am
Class #: 13166
Units: 4
In this course, we will investigate such questions as: What causes language endangerment and death, and why does it matter? Can dying languages be revitalized? How are thought, identity, and culture influenced by language, and vice versa? The course is designed to hone students' reading, writing, and research skills. Satisfies the second half of the reading and composition requirement.
- Meets Second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement
LINGUIS R1B 002
Endangered Languages: Why does linguistic diversity matter?
Instructor: TBD
Session A: May 23 2022 - Jul 01 2022
M, TU, W, TH
2:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Class #: 15003
Units: 4
In this course, we will investigate such questions as: What causes language endangerment and death, and why does it matter? Can dying languages be revitalized? How are thought, identity, and culture influenced by language, and vice versa? The course is designed to hone students' reading, writing, and research skills. Satisfies the second half of the reading and composition requirement.
- Meets Second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement
LINGUIS 155AC
Language in the United States: a Capsule History
Instructor: TBD
Session A: May 23 2022 - Jul 01 2022
M, TU, W, TH
10:00 am - 11:59 am
Class #: 13286
Units: 4
This course brings together history, sociology, and linguistics to develop a deeper view of who we are as a nation. It is organized as a narrative history of the U.S. from the perspective of immigration and language. We devote significant portions to the languages of Native Americans, African American English, and to the Spanish spoken in the U.S., as well as addressing the various other dialects of American English, the numerous smaller immigrant languages, Hawaiian, and ASL.
- Meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth American Cultures Requirement
LINGUIS 100
Introduction to Linguistic Science
Instructor: Peter S. E. Jenks
Session C: Jun 21 2022 - Aug 12 2022
Web-Based/Online
Class #: 15004
Units: 4
An intensive introduction of linguistic analysis, including core areas such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics, with data from a range of languages. Argumentation and writing skills are developed through substantial weekly homework assignments.
- Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
LINGUIS R1B 003
Endangered Languages: Why does linguistic diversity matter?
Instructor: TBD
Session D: Jul 05 2022 - Aug 12 2022
M, TU, W, TH
10:00 am - 11:59 am
Class #: 14032
Units: 4
In this course, we will investigate such questions as: What causes language endangerment and death, and why does it matter? Can dying languages be revitalized? How are thought, identity, and culture influenced by language, and vice versa? The course is designed to hone students' reading, writing, and research skills. Satisfies the second half of the reading and composition requirement.
- Meets Second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement
LINGUIS 125
Gesture, Cognition, and Culture
Instructor: TBD
Session D: Jul 05 2022 - Aug 12 2022
M, TU, W, TH
10:00 am - 11:59 am
Class #: 15290
Units: 3
Everyone gestures – even when they might not realize it. This course seeks to uncover what we can learn about cognition and culture through the lens of this integral aspect of our communicative and cognitive selves. We will consider the relationship between language and gesture including its role in language acquisition and in signed languages, and study how gestures help us communicate and help us think. We will also look at cross-cultural differences in gesture, the role of gesture in child development, applications of gesture from education to politics, and unpack the possibility of the gestural origins of human language.
- Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
LINGUIS 188
Linguistics Data
Instructor: TBD
Session D: Jul 05 2022 - Aug 12 2022
M, TU, W, TH
2:00 pm - 3:59 pm
Class #: 14172
Units: 3
How can we use data science methods to understand human language? Linguistics involves the study of language sounds, words, meanings, context, structure and change. This course provides students with the computational skills necessary to analyze linguistic data from these areas. We will draw on data from languages around the world and use computer programming and data visualization techniques from Foundations of Data Science.