CRITICAL APPLIED LINGUISTICS WORKING GROUP

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Consent of instructor Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, for 10 number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors and texts in the field of sociolinguistics, especially Africanist sociolinguistics Audience: Graduate 2. Develop in-depth knowledge in critical applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis Audience: Graduate 3. Understand their own learning processes and demonstrate the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking. Audience: Graduate 4. Effectively retrieve and comprehend primary sources in English and African languages, and secondary sources from a range of language-related disciplines. Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate firm knowledge of existing research in their area of specialization and its gaps, while articulating the place of their own research in relation to existing research on related topics. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate an understanding of professional and ethical responsivity with regard to producing original research and working with human subjects. Audience: Graduate 7. Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings. Audience: Graduate 8. Show knowledge of conventional rhetorical strategies, while integrating research by other authors and distinguishing between their own ideas and those of others. Audience: Graduate 9. Write and speak across disciplinary boundaries with regard to existing research about Africa and the diaspora in the humanities and social sciences. Audience: Graduate 10. Demonstrate the ability to organize a chapter or article-length piece of writing. Audience: Graduate 11. Demonstrate command of the terminology and methodology of critical applied linguistics, construct complex arguments, and use primary and secondary sources to support arguments. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors and texts in the field of sociolinguistics, especially Africanist sociolinguistics Audience: Graduate 2. Develop in-depth knowledge in critical applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis Audience: Graduate 3. Understand their own learning processes and demonstrate the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking. Audience: Graduate 4. Effectively retrieve and comprehend primary sources in English and African languages, and secondary sources from a range of language-related disciplines. Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate firm knowledge of existing research in their area of specialization and its gaps, while articulating the place of their own research in relation to existing research on related topics. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate an understanding of professional and ethical responsivity with regard to producing original research and working with human subjects. Audience: Graduate 7. Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings. Audience: Graduate 8. Show knowledge of conventional rhetorical strategies, while integrating research by other authors and distinguishing between their own ideas and those of others. Audience: Graduate 9. Write and speak across disciplinary boundaries with regard to existing research about Africa and the diaspora in the humanities and social sciences. Audience: Graduate 10. Demonstrate the ability to organize a chapter or article-length piece of writing. Audience: Graduate 11. Demonstrate command of the terminology and methodology of critical applied linguistics, construct complex arguments, and use primary and secondary sources to support arguments. Audience: Graduate