LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Consider how language policies, practices, and pedagogies contribute to or interrupt inequality in their own lives, on campus, and in local communities. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze how linguistic inequality is often reinforced but can be addressed more equitably through education. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare language policies and their impact on equity efforts across a range of locations. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Learn about key concepts in the study of language, culture, and social inequality. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Analyze how language constructs inequalities in texts, media and everyday interactions. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop academic speaking and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Consider how language policies, practices, and pedagogies contribute to or interrupt inequality in their own lives, on campus, and in local communities. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze how linguistic inequality is often reinforced but can be addressed more equitably through education. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare language policies and their impact on equity efforts across a range of locations. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Learn about key concepts in the study of language, culture, and social inequality. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Analyze how language constructs inequalities in texts, media and everyday interactions. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop academic speaking and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate