The following course offerings are listed for the convenience of students interested in the field of linguistics.
Anthropology 137 Language and Culture. Mid-level exploration of social dynamics of interpersonal communication and interaction between language and culture. Examination of linguistic theories, structuralist and semiotic approaches, and discourse analysis. Topics may include gender, ethnicity, race, bilingualism, language acquisition, oral narrative and testimony, organization of informal speech communication, and impact of language on other areas of Anthropology. May include a fieldwork-based project on language use. Members of the department
Child Development 152 Development of Thought and Language. Focus on relationship of thought and language, including review of theoretical underpinnings of nativist, constructivist, behaviorist, and sociocultural perspectives. This relationship will be examined in light of selected topics such as development of knowledge, metalinguistic awareness, narrative structure, mathematical knowledge, and others. Seminar format. Prerequisite: consent. Spring. Gidney
Child Development 155 The Young Child's Development of Language. Human language is examined as a form of communication and compared with animal signal systems. Other topics are phonological, syntactic, and semantic development; language, culture, and thought; language and social class; and language and bilingualism. Fall. Gidney
Computer Science 131 Artificial Intelligence. History, theory, and computational methods of artificial intelligence. Basic concepts include representation of knowledge and computational methods for reasoning. One or two application areas will be studied, to be selected from expert systems, robotics, computer vision, natural language understanding, and planning. Students will implement the computational methods in the Lisp language. Prerequisites: Computer Science 15 and 80. Schmolze
Modern Languages 114 Linguistic Approaches to Second-Language Acquisition. (Cross-listed as Education 114 and German 114.) Exploration of models of language acquisition, reasoning, and understanding in teaching second languages through readings from linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive science, and education. Students connect theory with practical experience from the context of elementary, middle, and high school levels. Stoessel
Modern Languages 163 Applied Linguistics for Modern Foreign Languages. The nature of language, difference between the spoken and written language, contrastive analysis of English phonology and morphology. Linguistics and style. Readings in psycholinguistics. Prerequisites: Two semester courses in French, Spanish, German, or Russian above the 4 or 6 level.
Modern Languages 182 Introduction to General Linguistics. Linguistic analysis, both descriptive
(synchronic) and historical (diachronic), in phonology, morphology, and syntax; a
historical survey of the development of the major linguistic concepts and some important
current trends.
Philosophy 3 Language and Mind. Implications of recent work on language for our
understanding of the human mind: consciousness, human intention, paradoxes, computers as
models of mind, rules and conventions, metaphor. Readings drawn from classic and
contemporary texts. Fall. Dennett
Philosophy 133 Philosophy of Language. Examination of concepts fundamental to the nature of language and speech: reference, meaning, speech acts and linguistic competence, the syntax and semantics of natural languages. Philosophical views on these topics, including those of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, Grice, Chomsky, and others. Prerequisites: Philosophy 1 and 33, or consent. Richard
Psychology 149 Psychology of Language. Study of language as a perceptual and cognitive process with particular focus on theory and data as they relate to comprehension, production, and speech perception. Critical examination of contributions of linguistic theory, theories of language learning, and data from areas such as language disorders, cerebral dominance, sociolinguistics, and reading processes. Prerequisite: a course in psychology or consent. Holcomb, Taylor