3 courses with the subject LING, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Introduces major topics in the study of language, including language acquisition, language change, the social use of language, and the analysis of discourse, and teaches basic techniques in linguistic analysis through the use of a wide variety of language data.
Develops understanding of how language is involved with relations of class, ethnicity, gender and aesthetics in society. The course covers the social investigation of language use, politeness in languages, different varieties of English dialects, slang, and rap, bilingualism and languages in immigrant communities, and language planning.
Foundations of Linguistics provides a foundation in the analysis of language, including topics of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Using a problem-based approach, students examine areas of language use such as first and second language acquisition, the analysis of world languages other than English, and variation in language use (sociolinguistics).
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
