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  • LING 105 American Sign Language

    Units: 1

    Description
    Introduction to basic American Sign Language (ASL) skills and to Deaf history and Deaf culture. Covers fingerspelling, basic vocabulary and grammatical structures, and the development of visual receptive and gestural expressive skills. Designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of ASL.
  • LING 203 Introductory Linguistics

    Units: 1

    Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Social Inquiry (AISO), IF-Power/Equity/Identity/Cult (IFPE)

    Description
    General introduction to the study of language as a medium of cognition and perception and as a social institution. The course focuses on phonetics; word formation; historical linguistics; syntax; semantics; cultural assumptions coded in texts; variation based on region, gender, class, and race/ethnicity; how language determines cultural and social categories; and the relationship between language and thought.
  • LING 250 Introduction to Syntax

    Units: 1

    Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Symbolic Reasoning (AISR)

    Description
    Analysis of how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. Translation of syntactic structures into symbolic systems; modification of systems to model increasingly complex data. Requires no mathematics.
  • LING 252 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

    Units: 1

    Description
    Familiarizes students with the Indo-European language family, its history, its textual artefacts, and the cultures that produced them; also introduces students to the methods used by working Indo-Europeanists. Readings, lectures, and discussions cover the grammar reconstructed for proto-Indo-European (PIE) as well as its vocabulary, which facilitates reconstruction of PIE culture (e.g. law, family structure, mythology, and various other aspects of the way of life of PIE speakers). Also explores the results of cross-disciplinary collaboration between IE linguistics and archaeology.
  • LING 254 Introduction to Phonology

    Units: 1

    Description
    Analyze and model a type of unconscious knowledge that humans have, namely their ability to manipulate sounds as they speak and apprehend sounds as they listen. The analysis and modeling are done within a formal symbolic system.
  • LING 297 Selected Topics

    Units: 0.25

    Description
    Selected topics in linguistics.
  • LING 390 Independent Study

    Units: 0.25

    Description
    Topics independently pursued under supervision of faculty member.