|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the major areas of sociolinguistics and of current sociolinguistic thinking, with a focus on the Deaf community. It begins with an introduction to the field, followed by a look at bilingualism and language contact phenomena, including lexical borrowing, code-switching, code-mixing, diglossia, pidgins, and creoles. Following this look at intralanguage phenomena, the focus turns to the internal and external constraints upon them. Discourse analysis is then examined, with a focus on language and social interaction and the structure of conversations. Language attitudes are then discussed, followed by a look at language policy and planning.
-
1.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the processes by which children acquire their first language, focusing on the major milestones of phonological and syntactic development. Children everywhere accomplish the task of learning their native language by the age of 5;0. They succeed despite the cognitive limitations of their age and follow the same general patterns of development regardless of what language they are learning. The efficiency with which children acquire language suggests some degree of innate linguistic knowledge, or a "language instinct." This course will overview some of the major research discoveries of how children combine this language instinct with information provided by the environment to acquire their native language. Course topics will include babbling and early phonetic development by infants, acquisition of word order, questions, and word meanings. A final segment of the course will explore the acquisition of sign languages and the ways in which dea f children? ? signing development parallels that of spoken language in hearing children
-
1.00 Credits
Modern linguistic theory, traditionally based on research conducted on spoken languages, has benefited greatly from recent linguistic investigation of sign languages. Findings of similarities between spoken and sign languages reaffirm their equivalent status as fully natural languages, while differences point to areas where existing theory must be expanded. This course introduces students to the acquisition of ASL as a first language by deaf children and the unique contributions this research makes to general theories of language development. As background preparation, we will begin with a broad overview of important milestones in the acquisition of spoken language by hearing children. This will be followed by a short discussion on the effects of modality (oral/aural vs. gestural/visual) on the acquisition process. The remaining two-thirds of the class will be devoted to language development in the gestural/visual modality. Readings and lectures will center on the acquisition of phonology and selected syntactic phenomena, including nonmanuals and questions. The course will end with a discussion of delayed exposure to sign language and its effects on acquisition, a topic of great importance to the field of Deaf education. Prerequisite: LIN 670
-
1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Special Topics
-
1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
This course is a review of arithmetic concepts and skills in basic operations, absolute value, integer exponents, order of operations, prime factors. Problem solving includes geometrical, statistical, and financial applications involving percent, ratio, and proportion. Signed numbers and equations in one variable are introduced. Basic concepts of geometry include length and perimeter, area, volume, triangles, and angles.
-
4.00 Credits
This course covers basic operations with algebraic expressions, solving equations in one variable, linear equations and their graphs, linear inequalities, exponents, and multiplying and dividing polynomials, and factoring polynomials. Applications are included throughout. A graphing calculator is required. Prerequisite: MAT 011 or equivalent
-
4.00 Credits
This course covers rational expressions, systems of linear equations in two variables, radicals and complex numbers, quadratic equations, graphs of quadratic functions, exponential and logarithmic functions. Applications are included throughout. A graphing calculator is required. Prerequisite: MAT 012 or equivalent
-
4.00 Credits
This course is designed to promote mathematical literacy among liberal arts students and to prepare students for GSR 104. The approach in this course helps students increase their knowledge of mathematics, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and enhance their ability to learn and communicate mathematics. Technology is integrated throughout to help students interpret real-life data algebraically, numerically, symbolically, and graphically. Topics include calculator skills, number sense, basic algebraic manipulation, solving linear equations, graphing of linear equations, and their applications. *Institutional credit hours
-
1.00 Credits
This course is designed to help students learn the strategies and skills that can be used to help them succeed in math. The course will focus on strategies for reading math books, test-taking preparation and strategies, increasing learning while doing homework assignments and more. The course will also emphasize the need for understanding math language as well as providing essential vocabulary to the students. In addition, students will be exposed to some of the latest tools and technology available to aid their studying and understanding.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|