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This course draws heavily from current issues in society to highlight the role of language. It explores strategies we use to construct and reflect our identities (as skaters, rappers, school girls, nerds, etc.), to form new meanings, and to accommodate popular new technologies (e.g., texting). This course also examines personal and societal perceptions and attitudes towards the language use and competence of others. Students will undertake a challenging, collaborative, hands-on analysis to appreciate (how) language matters. (Available for General Education, Arts and Humanities)
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3.00 Credits
What are the languages of California? Who speaks them? What can discovering and examining the range of indigenous, diasporic, and emerging languages in California tell us about our own relationships to language and languages, individually and collectively? This course looks at these questions, investigating, through its survey of California’s languages, some fundamental linguistic and sociolinguistic ideas about language and languages. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies)
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3.00 Credits
Determining what a written text or spoken utterance exactly conveys is nowhere more important than in the area of the law where subtle differences in wording can have drastic consequences in people’s lives. This course examines how language is used and interpreted in legal settings by applying insights from the linguistic fields of semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. The course has lifelong relevance for every citizen, since we can expect to sign contracts, receive a jury summons or engage in many other ways with the law and legal documents. The course emphasizes active student participation and an explicit connection between theory and practice. Students will be expected to apply their acquired knowledge to practical and - wherever possible - current societal issues. (Available for General Education, Lifelong Learning)
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: ANTH 310, ENGL 301 or COMS 420. Study of the physical and acoustical properties of sound in a variety of natural languages; phonological analysis and rule formation in phonological systems.
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Preparatory: ANTH 310, ENGL 301 or COMS 420. Analysis of morphological and syntactic structures in a variety of natural languages; an examination of major grammatical theories.
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: ANTH 310, ENGL 301 or COMS 420. Introduction to the study of language variation. Theoretical aspects of phonological, syntactic, and semantic variation will be considered in their geographical and social context.
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: ANTH 310, ENGL 301 or COMS 420. Linguistic study of meaning and context of discourse, and the relationship of such study to grammar.
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: Upper Division standing, and an introduction to the study of language. Required for both ITEP and Linguistics/TESL students, and addresses topics linked to language arts and (T)ESL methods courses for students preparing to teach. Introduces students to the study of language development and acquisition, including such topics as approaches to the development of children’s grammars, the development of communicative competence, definitions of bi- and multi-lingualism, relationships between language development and learning to read, issues particular to the multilingual nature of California, and issues related to exceptional language development.
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: ANTH 310, ENGL 301 or COMS 420. This course examines various effects of language contact: the occurrence of lexical and grammatical borrowing, such as borrowings between English and Spanish, the emergence of pidgins and creoles and mixed languages along with the process of language attrition or death in the context of a dominant language. The course also addresses the ways in which speakers in multilingual speech communities navigate between the languages that they speak and the language planning efforts of multilingual communities that are aimed at controlling which language (variety) is used/taught in which setting such as the use of ASL versus signed English. Much of this course focuses on issues of special relevance to multilingual speech communities in the United States and on language contact effects between English and languages such as Armenian, Spanish, Russian, and Korean.
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3.00 Credits
Preparatory: An introduction to linguistics. Survey of the fields comprising Cognitive Science: linguistics, neurology, philosophy, and psychology. Key issues addressed include the nature of symbolic representation, the ways in which we perceive and understand “input,” the nature of “thinking,” and the role of computational models in understanding aspects of human cognition and language.
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