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LING201

Topics in the Study of Language

Interdepartmental College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

LING

Course Number

201

Status

Active

Course Attributes

CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, EMNE: Major-Neuroscience Elective, MNEU: Major-Neuroscience, NLIN: Minor-Linguistics, NNEU: Minor-Neuroscience

Course Short Title

Topics in the Study of Lang.

Course Long Title

Topics in the Study of Language

Course Description

The discipline of linguistics is concerned with language in all of the different ways it functions. When the material and approaches of any academic field are applied to language, that application is within the purview of linguistics. Students will have the opportunity to be exposed to some of the many areas in which language can be the topic, chosen from the following: philosophy, sociology, neurophysiology, cognitive and developmental psychology, foreign languages, evolutionary and cultural anthropology. Draws on the expertise of professors from a variety of departments, each 'visiting scholar,' so to speak, presenting material from his or her own field as it intersects with the study of language.

Min

4

Repeatable

-

Equivalent Course(s)

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