Seminar in Sociolinguistics
General
Prefix
ENGL
Course Number
666
Course Level
Graduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
International and intercultural issues of language, such as world English, multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, language policy, planning, education, language and social class, ethnicity, and gender.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
No
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Identify, describe, and explain patterns of language variations that correlate with social structures.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and explain patterns of regional dialect variations.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and use technology to quantify vowel variation.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and use technology to quantify variation in consonants.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and carry out ethnolinguistic investigation based on the SPEAKING methdology.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and explain issues related to language planning and policy.
Outcome
Identify, describe, and explain issues related to language endangerment and revitalization.