GLOBAL LANGUAGE ISSUES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify ways that geographic, social, and political events, movements, and trends shape the sociolinguistic context of the world’s languages Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of subfields of global sociolinguistic inquiry, including language contact, variation, change, and death; language revitalization; the intersections of language, race, and ethnicity; the intersections of language and gender, and sexuality Audience: Undergraduate 3. Critically evaluate specific examples of language use in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design and conduct a sociocultural linguistic research project, including: identify a research question; collect appropriate resources and data; conduct data analysis and interpretation; draw conclusions, and summarize results Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify ways that geographic, social, and political events, movements, and trends shape the sociolinguistic context of the world’s languages Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of subfields of global sociolinguistic inquiry, including language contact, variation, change, and death; language revitalization; the intersections of language, race, and ethnicity; the intersections of language and gender, and sexuality Audience: Undergraduate 3. Critically evaluate specific examples of language use in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design and conduct a sociocultural linguistic research project, including: identify a research question; collect appropriate resources and data; conduct data analysis and interpretation; draw conclusions, and summarize results Audience: Undergraduate