Core principles of language as a social act and its employment in the construction of social identity. Examines linguistic variation in relation to multilingualism and notions of gender, power, ethnicity, race, and social class.

Consent of instructor. Study of a less-commonly studied language at the elementary level. May be repeated for a maximum total of sixteen hours with different content.

Consent of instructor. Study of a less-commonly studied language at the intermediate level. May be repeated for a maximum total of twelve hours with different content.

See ENG 3310 for course information.

See ENG 3301 for course information.

See ENG 3302 for course information.

The study of language as it is used in its social context for marking an individual's group (e.g., race, gender, age, class, profession) membership.

The rich interaction between our language and cultural values in defining who we are and how we relate to one another. Understanding this complex interaction is seen as the key to effective cross-cultural communication.

Consent of instructor. Study of a less-commonly studied language at the advanced level. May be repeated for a maximum total of six hours with different content.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Basic concepts, methods, and controversies in the study of word meanings, sentences, and discourse, including the interaction of language and context.

Principles of contemporary structural linguistics; concepts and operations of transformational syntax and case grammar as they are used to analyze the structure of language systems.

Principles and methods for studying sound systems of languages.

Topics in Linguistics not covered in the Language and Linguistics courses. Topic announced for each semester or session. Course can be repeated once with a change of topic and consent of the instructor.

See ENG 4302 for course information.

Children's acquisition of sounds, lexicon, sentence structure, and contextual usage of their first language.

See ENG 4304 for course information.

Psychological processes involved in understanding, producing, and learning language; topics include speech perception, mental representations of language, the influence of language on thought, bilingualism, aphasia, and dyslexia.

Theories of language acquisition, taking into account such fields as linguistics, neurophysiology, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as those disciplines illuminate the process of acquiring language. The course will also familiarize the student with problems and issues in the teaching of second languages.

Introduction to dialectology, focusing on the origins of American English dialects and their development through the spread of linguistic variation.

Supervised individual research and study of a linguistic subfield or linguistics problem. Repeat once with change of topic for maximum of six hours.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.