Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

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: LING 205.