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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Traces English word-origins, exposing the romance of their story, while showing how linguistic analysis can help participants to increase their mastery of English vocabulary. Guides for interpreting new or specialized terminology.
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3.00 Credits
Alphabets and other writing systems around the world, from "logographic" (Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, Japanese) to syllabary (Japanese, Cherokee), consonantal alphabet or abjad (Hebrew, Arabic), to alphabet (Greek, Roman, etc.). Relevance of writing to thought.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two semesters in any foreign language. Exercises in foreign language learning with a variety of language structures, as a way of exploring nature of foreign language learning.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences. Relationship between language and gender: language variation according to gender, discourse structure and same- and cross-sex interactions; cross-cultural research linking language and gender. Qualitative and quantitative linguistics analyses of language data.
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3.00 Credits
Linguistics devices used to persuade in politics. Differences between what is literally said and what is actually conveyed in political discourse. How political speakers and writers use grammar, sound structure, and vocabulary to persuade.
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3.00 Credits
Linguistic devices used to persuade in advertising. Differences between what is literally said and what is actually conveyed in advertisements. How advertisers use the grammar, sound structure, and vocabulary of languages (especially English) to persuade audiences.
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3.00 Credits
Legal language; reading legal cases; linguistic and legal analysis of contracts, statutes, constitutions, other "operative" texts; language crimes and forensic linguistics; language and First Amendment law; language under law (minority language, dialect rights).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences. Computers, computer programming languages, and "artificial intelligence" viewed from perspective of human language.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Limited to linguistics majors. Satisfies Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement for students who have completed 60 units; completed Writing Proficiency Assessment with a score of 8 or higher (or earned a C or higher in RWS 280, 281, or LING 281 if score on WPA was 7 or lower); and completed General Education requirements in Composition and Critical Thinking. Proof of completion of prerequisites required: Test scores or verification of exemption; copy of transcript. Upper division writing course taken in conjunction with any 500- numbered linguistics course. Emphasizes composition skills in research methods, essay organization, paragraphing, sentence structure, and diction, all related to the particular 500-level linguistics course chosen.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities. The history of English and its present day use.
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