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4.00 Credits
A historical survey of the media, from the development of language and the earliest uses of images to the web. The emphasis, in an attempt to gain perspective on our own communications revolution, is on the reception, uses, and political, social, and philosophical consequences of different forms of communication.
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4.00 Credits
Topics may include the following: Rise of the Web, Deconstructing Campaign Coverage, and The Rise of Participatory Media.
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4.00 Credits
Courses that analyze the forces-cultural, social, economic, ideological, and aesthetic-that shape the media and their messages. See descriptions of courses in the section "Media Criticism Courses," below.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Superior students are given an opportunity to work 12 to 20 hours a week with cooperating metropolitan New York publications and broadcast stations. Their work is edited and evaluated by staff supervisors of the participating media, as well as our internship staff. Emphasis is on professionalism. Students may take this variable-credit course more than once, but are limited to a total of 4 points in internships. 4 points equals one elective for the major.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students who, in the opinion of the department, possess intellectual independence and ability are permitted to carry on individual work in a field of study selected in conference with members of the faculty. To register for this course, a student must have the written approval of the director of undergraduate studies.
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4.00 Credits
Nature or nurture? Linguistics is a science that systematically addresses this puzzle, and it offers a uniquely interesting support for the answer: both. Language is a social phenomenon, but human languages share elaborate and specific structural properties. The conventions of speech communities exist, exhibit variation, and change within the strict confines of universal grammar, part of our biological endowment. Universal grammar is discovered through the careful study of the structures of individual languages, by cross-linguistic investigations, and the investigation of the brain. In this way, linguistics mediates between cognitive science and social science. This course introduces some fundamental properties of the sound system and of the structure and interpretation of words and sentences, set into this context.
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4.00 Credits
Course content varies; see the description of each offering at the department's home page.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to phonetic and phonological theory at an elementary level. Topics include the description and analysis of speech sounds, the anatomy and physiology of speech, speech acoustics, and phonological processes. Students develop skills to distinguish and produce sounds used in the languages of the world and to transcribe them using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to phonology, the area of linguistics that investigates how languages organize sounds into highly constrained systems. The fundamental questions include the following: What do the sound systems of all languages have in common? How can they differ from each other? What is the nature of phonological processes, and why do they occur? Students develop analytical skills by solving phonological problems based on data from a wide variety of languages.
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4.00 Credits
What determines the sequencing of words in a given language? How can we explain word-order variation within and across languages? Are there universal syntactic properties common to the grammar of all languages? This course presents the motivation for the modern generative approach to the scientific study of language and systematically develops a model that will account for the most basic syntactic constructions of natural language. Skills in scientific argumentation and reasoning are developed by analyzing problems in the syntax of English and a number of other languages.
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