American English

General

Prefix

ENGL

Course Number

466

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Liberal Arts

Description

Spoken American English, its historical development, contemporary social, ethnic, gendered, and regional varieties, and the implications of language variation for education.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Use linguistic terms and concepts appropriately in discussions and writing about dialectal variation in contemporary spoken American English.

Outcome

Identify, compare, and analyze linguistic features of social, ethnic, regional and gender-based varieties of contemporary spoken American English

Outcome

Evaluate ways that language variation is influenced by migration and settlement patterns, social and ethnic isolation and contact, contact with languages other than English, etc.

Outcome

Assess notions of language ¿correctness¿ from the perspective of the social, regional, and ethnic diversity of contemporary American society.

Dependencies

Programs

ENGL466 is a completion requirement for: