Making Sense of Language

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

How dependent upon language is our experience and understanding of the universe around us? How do we "make sense" of language? This course offers an exploration of the human linguistic condition through the analysis of authentic documents in French (brochures, articles, print and TV commercials, speeches, clips from movies, objects, etc.), which bring to life some of the most important concepts in language-related studies. This course fulfills the linguistics requirement and the post-advanced language requirement for the French major and satisfies one semester of the College's social science general education requirement.