Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HIP HOP AND LANGUAGE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The goal of this seminar is to examine critically -from a (socio) linguistic perspective- what is arguably the most influential and pervasive cultural current among youth today. We will analyze hip hop data, drawing from various media, to take on issues including language and power, differences between cultures, and constructing ethnicities. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 103.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 105, SWGS 105.

Long Title: LANGUAGE IN THE MEDIA

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we examine the effect language use in the media has on an American and global culture. Students will collect data to contribute to a class data set, which they will then use to complete their own original research projects. This course is limited to first-year students only. Cross-list: FSEM 108.

Long Title: WRITING: ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND COGNITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is "writing"? How did it emerge in human history? How does it relate to human cognition? Beginnings of writing in early civilizations for commercial transactions; development into linguistic representation systems. Logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic systems. Spread of literacy and its role and effects or society and human cognitive processing. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 138.

Long Title: LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT LOSS AND REVITALIZATION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will investigate the issues surrounding language endangerment, loss and revitalization. Using a seminar format, we will explore topics that include linguistic diversity, the implications of language loss, how researchers approach language documentation and description and look at revitalization efforts. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 139.

Long Title: THE COGNITIVE AND SOCIOCULTURAL WORLDS OF BILINGUALS AND MULTILINGUALS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course uses a seminar format to investigate the multiple ways in which the psychological and social worlds of bilinguals and multilinguals may differ from that of monolinguals. It covers a large range of topics from the purely cognitive, (how the various components of language are stored and accessed), to more socio-cultural (cultural identity and role switching) or political ones (bilingual education). This course is limited to first-year students only; any others will be removed from the course. Cross-list: FSEM 140.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of the scientific study of the structure and function of language. Introduces the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Highlights the interdisciplinary relationship of linguistics with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cognitive sciences. Cross-list: ANTH 200.

Long Title: METAPHORS IN SCIENCE AND COGNITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course provides a brief overview of the theory of conceptual metaphor and investigates to relevance of metaphor in the creation and diffusion of scientific concepts.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity, and geographic variation affect language use. Cross-list: SWGS 205.

Long Title: SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200

Description: This course will describe the basics of speech and hearing science, including but not limited to: anatomy and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms, neural pathways involved in speech and hearing, speech pathology and audiology, types of speech and hearing disorders, their causes, and types of therapies available for the remediation of these disorders.

Long Title: WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal structure and the nature and history of English vocabulary. Aims are to enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, legal, and humanistic vocabulary. No previous linguistics background required. Cross-list: ENGL 215.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

Description: A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements, causatives. Cross-list: ANTH 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 500. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 300 if student has credit for LING 500.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

Description: Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Cross-list: ANTH 301, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 501. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 301 if student has credit for LING 501.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300

Description: An introduction to syntactic analysis and argumentation. Various topics will be covered, including (but not limited to) word classes, grammatical categories, simple and complex sentences, and constituency. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 504. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 304 if student has credit for LING 504.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200

Description: Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change, syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: ANTH 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 305 if student has credit for LING 505.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MIND

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200 OR LING 300

Description: Study of language as a cognitive system. Linguistic data as evidence for the cognitive structures and processes that enable people to learn and use language; how linguistic structure influences concept formation and patterns of thinking. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 506. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 306 if student has credit for LING 506.

Long Title: PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 101 AND PSYC 203

Description: Study of human and other animal communication. Includes the structure of human language, word meaning and semantic memory, psychological studies of syntax, bilingualism, language and thought, and language errors and disorders. Block I course. Cross-list: PSYC 309.

Long Title: MORPHOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 OR LING 311

Description: Morphology is the study of word formation and the relationship between form, meaning, and syntax. This course is an introduction to morphological theory. Topics covered include approaches to word formation, morphological change, and morphological phenomena in diverse languages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 510. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 310 if student has credit for LING 510.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 200 OR LING 200) AND (ANTH 301 OR LING 301) or permission of instructor

Description: Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets, and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Cross-list: ANTH 323. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 311 if student has credit for LING 511.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigation of the relation between language and thought, language and worldview, and language and logic. Cross-list: ANTH 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 513. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 313 if student has credit for LING 513.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics and related fields. Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Cross-list: PSYC 315, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 515. Recommended prerequisite: LING 200 or ANTH 200. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 315 if student has credit for LING 515.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF FRENCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 OR FREN 226

Description: The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological developments. Beyond the specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of any language. Taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 318. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 102

Description: Examination of the linguistic structure of Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR), including aspects of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Course is taught in English, but knowledge of Russian equivalent to completion of two semesters of college level language instruction is required; two years recommended. Cross-list: RUSS 319. Recommended Prerequisite(s): RUSS 202.

Long Title: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200

Description: How did Human Language arise, and what role did language play in the evolution of our species? This course introduces the basic sources of evidence (e.g., fossil remains, comparative primatology, neonatal development) for knowledge of human linguistic prehistory, including the spread of modern humans and human language throughout the world.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Chinese with special attention to contrastive analysis of selected topics of Chinese and English, including expressions of tense and aspect, conditional and counterfactual, word formation (morphology), the notion of syntactic category, grammaticalization, metaphor, Chinese writing system and sociolinguistics. Taught in English. Cross-list: CHIN 321.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 205

Description: This course explores the role that ethnicity plays in various language varieties used in the U.S., and the role that language varieties play in ethnic identity. We examine this from both speech production and speech perception perspectives.

Long Title: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigation of the nature of linguistic representations from corpus-based analyses as compared to more traditional methodologies. Includes the collection of individual text data (or the exploration of existing text sources), the use of various text analysis programs (e.g. concordance software), and the production of lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, or cultural analyses of selected texts, using computer-based methods. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 530. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 330 if student has credit for LING 530.

Long Title: INTRO TO INDO-EUROPEAN

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will begin with a brief survey of the Indo-European languages, followed by a detailed reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European phonology, morphology, and syntax. The second half of the course will deal with Indo-European culture, laws, society and poetics, together with a consideration of advanced topics in the individual branches. Cross-list: CLAS 336.

Long Title: THEORY AND METHODS OF TEACHING ESL AND FL

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of teaching a second language. Includes the process of language learning viewed from social, psychological, and linguistic perspectives, as well as commonly used teaching "methods," such as the audio-lingual method, situational language teaching, the natural approach, and TPR, among others. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 540. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 340 if student has credit for LING 540.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200) AND JAPA 202

Description: This course examines current issues in Japanese grammar in the framework of contemporary linguistic theory. Where appropriate, the traditional kokugogaku approach is compared with modern linguistic approaches. Basic knowledge of both Japanese and linguistics is required. Cross-list: JAPA 370. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics. Cross-list: ENGL 394.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major developments in English, starting from its Indo-European and Germanic origins, then observing stages of the language from Anglo-Saxon to Middle English to Early Modern English via literary landmarks. Includes phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical developments, as well as sociolinguistic aspects such as the emergence of "standard English" and the development of post-colonial Englishes. Cross-list: ENGL 395.

Long Title: PROFESSIONS IN THE SPEECH SCIENCES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Students will attend a series of presentations by Houston area speech and hearing professionals who will discuss their current research and/or clinical focus. Students will also research career paths in the speech sciences. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The foundations of important linguistic ideas and currents in the classic work of 19th and 20th century linguists, with reference to their influence on modern theories. Includes discussion of the Neogrammarians, Saussure, Sapir, Jespersen, Bloomfield, Whorf, and American and European structuralists. Taught as a pro-seminar.

Long Title: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC THEORIES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 300 OR ANTH 300) OR (LING 500 OR ANTH 500) or permission of instructor

Description: Compares and explores the nature of data, argumentation, goals, and assumptions of current theoretical approaches to language and linguistics. Centers on the discussion of general readings and source articles from cognitive, generative, typological, discourse-functional, and sociolinguistic orientations. Emphasizes critical thinking and awareness of the potential benefits and drawbacks of each approach.

Long Title: DISCOURSE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 OR ANTH 300 OR LING 500 OR ANTH 500

Description: An overview of features and organization of language-in-use. Examination of the macro-structure of different genres of discourse, the interplay between language and social/cultural interaction, and the role of discourse and communication in motivating and shaping grammatical form.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and their underlying logical principles. Cross-list: ANTH 406.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): (LING 300 OR ANTH 300) AND (LING 301 OR ANTH 301) AND (LING 304 OR ANTH 304) AND (LING 311 OR ANTH 323) OR (LING 500 OR ANTH 500) AND (LING 501 OR ANTH 501) AND (LING 504 OR ANTH 504) AND (LING 511 OR ANTH 523)

Description: Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human language. Cross-list: ANTH 407. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 407 OR LING 407

Description: Observation, analysis and recording of a human language. Focus on morphosyntactic description. Cross-list: ANTH 408. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course content varies from year to year. Spring 10 Description: This course will serve to introduce the students to basics of natural language processing, understanding and generation. We will cover topics ranging from finite-state automata, to n-gram, Hidden Markov, and Maximum Entropy models. These topics will be extended to part of speech tagging, syntactic and statistical parsing, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis and information extraction. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RHETORIC

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of classical series of rhetoric and followed by more intensive discussions both of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Cross-list: ANTH 412.

Long Title: NEUROLINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of language and the brain. Includes localization of speech, language, and memory functions, hemispheric dominance, pathologies of speech and language associated with brain damage, and hypotheses of the representation and operation of linguistic information in the cortex. Cross-list: ANTH 411.

Long Title: APPROACHES TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 AND LING 304

Description: Syntactic analysis may be studied from a variety of both generative and functional approaches. In this course, students are introduced to different approaches to theoretical syntax. Topics covered will vary from year to year according to the wishes and background of the students but will include analysis of different syntactic phenomena in LFG, GB/Minimalism, and comparison with functional approaches.

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Application of linguistic theory and method in the analysis of cultural materials. Includes discourse analysis and the structure and interpretation of texts and conversation. Cross-list: ANTH 414.

Long Title: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 OR ANTH 301 OR LING 311 OR ANTH 323 OR LING 501 OR ANTH 501 OR LING 511 OR ANTH 523

Description: This course covers contemporary sociolinguistic theory and methodologies. We examine the linguistic consequences to speakers of their group memberships such as gender, race, class and sexuality. Cross-list: SWGS 415.

Long Title: LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND TYPOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 OR ANTH 300 OR LING 500 OR ANTH 500

Description: Investigation of what human languages have in common and a range of ways in which they can differ. Includes marking patterns in particular linguistic domains (e.g., case marking, animacy, and passives) and theoretical and methodological issues.

Long Title: THE EVOLUTION OF SPANISH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an introduction to (1) major historical changes that led to the evolution of Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin) to the Castillian dialect of Spanish (espanol or castellano), and (2) current developments and expected changes in the future of the various representatives of former Castillian dialect. Cross-list: SPAN 380. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 301 OR ANTH 301) AND (LING 311 OR ANTH 323) OR (LING 501 OR ANTH 501) AND (LING 511 OR ANTH 523)

Description: Examination of issues in contemporary phonological theory. Special attention will be given to more advanced representational theories (feature geometry, moraic phonology) and phonetically motivated phonological analysis, especially within the framework of optimality theory.

Long Title: LABORATORY PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 301 OR ANTH 301) AND (LING 311 OR ANTH 323) OR (LING 501 OR ANTH 501) AND (LING 511 OR ANTH 523)

Description: This course will examine phonetic and phonological phenomena from an empirical point of view, placing priority on first-hand acoustic or experimental data. The primary goal will be the investigation of theoretical issues in the areas of phonetic processing, lexical representation, and phonological patterning. A secondary goal is familiarity with laboratory techniques.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HONORS PROJECT

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Independent directed research toward preparation of an undergraduate honors project or thesis. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements causatives. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 500, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 300. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 500 if student has credit for LING 300.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 501, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 301. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 501 if student has credit for LING 301.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 500

Description: An introduction to syntactic analysis and argumentation. Various topics will be covered, including (but not limited to) word classes, grammatical categories, simple and complex sentences, and constituency. Prerequisite of LING 500 may be taken concurrently with LING 504. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 304. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 504 if student has credit for LING 304.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change, syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 505, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 305. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 505 if student has credit for LING 305.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MIND

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of language as a cognitive system. Linguistic data as evidence for the cognitive structures and processes that enable people to learn and use language; how linguistic structure influences concept formation and patterns of thinking. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 306. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 506 if student has credit for LING 306.

Long Title: MORPHOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 500 OR ANTH 500 OR LING 511 OR ANTH 523

Description: Morphology is the study of word formation and the relationship between form, meaning, and syntax. This course is an introduction to morphological theory. Topics covered include approaches to word formation, morphological change, and morphological phenomena in diverse languages. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 310. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 510 if student has credit for LING 310.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets, and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 523. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 511 if student has credit for LING 311.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and world view, language and logic. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 513, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 313. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 513 if student has credit for LING 313. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics and related fields. Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 315. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 515 if student has credit for LING 315.

Long Title: TOPICS IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will explore topics in the study of language and culture; a field of study commonly referred to as linguistic anthropology. We will explore topics such as how we acquire language and the social norms of communications how language is used in multilinguistic settings and whether or not language reflects our world view. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing.

Long Title: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigation of the nature of linguistic representations from corpus-based analyses as compared to more traditional methodologies. Includes the collection of individual text data (or the exploration of existing text sources), the use of various text analysis programs (e.g. concordance software), and the production of lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, or cultural analyses of selected texts, using computer-based methods. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 330. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 530 if student has credit for LING 330.

Long Title: THEORY AND METHODS OF TEACHING ESL AND FL

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of teaching a second language. Includes the process of language learning viewed from social, psychological, and linguistic perspectives, as well as commonly used teaching "methods," such as the audio-lingual method, situational language teaching, the natural approach, and TPR, among others. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 340. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 540 if student has credit for LING 340.

Long Title: DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Faculty, graduate students, and invited guests meet weekly to present reports on current research or to discuss current issues in Linguistics. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LINGUISTIC THEORY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN SEMANTIC THEORY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 OR LING 501 OR ANTH 301 OR ANTH 501

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE VARIATION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 415

Description: Topics vary from semester to semester. For this semester, we will take a more in depth look at language variation as it relates to gender and ethnicity. We will examine such variation from both quantitative and qualitative stand points. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: SWGS 556. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN DISCOURSE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE CHANGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 505

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 511

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 311 OR LING 511 AND LING 504

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course presents the major issues in Second Language Acquisition in natural and formal settings (classrooms). Particular attention will be placed on less commonly taught languages, as well as community-based efforts of language revitalization. Students must be second-year graduate students or have permission of the instructor to enroll. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TEACHING LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description: Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DISSERTATION RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.