23 courses with the subject LING H, 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.
LING H010INTRODUCTION TO ZAPOTEC0.5
This course is an introduction to Dizhsa (San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec; Valley Zapotec) and is designed to give you an introduction to Dizhsa, an Indigenous language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Students will gain skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and will learn about cultural context in both Oaxaca and the diaspora. As a 0.5 unit course, this course does not satisfy the language requirement. This course is funded through the Mellon Together with Humanities grant. Pre-requisite(s): LING 215 (can also be a co-requisite) or instructor consent. Lottery Preference: This course is funded by the Mellon Together with Humanities grant and may be offered for up to three years. It is funded under the schema of "course cluster" and will be in a cluster with Ling 215. Thus, students in Ling 215 should have priority in enrollment. Any open seats could be open lotteried.
Introduction to learning and understanding American Sign Language (ASL), and the cultural values and rules of behavior of the American Deaf community. Includes receptive and expressive readiness activities; sign vocabulary; grammatical structure; facial expressions (emotional & grammatical), body/spatial movement, gestures; receptive and expressive fingerspelling; and deaf culture do's and don'ts. Specific concepts/topics include the number/letter basics, identifying people, activities, places, and family. This course is funded by Mellon Together with Humanities Grant. Can count towards Haverford's Language Requirement. Pre-requisite(s): WRPR 118 (can also be a co-requisite) or instructor consent. Lottery Preference: This course is funded by the Mellon Together with Humanities grant and may be offered for up to three years. It is funded under the schema of "course cluster" and will be in a cluster with a first year writing seminar on Disability and Difference.
In ASL II, students expand their conversational range from talking about themselves to talking about other people, and about activities inside and outside the home along with time/ calendar/sequencing concepts. Students also gain skill in reading and giving directions along with making requests as well as agreeing to requests with conditions. Other concepts include opinions, qualities, and pricing. Students develop polite conversation strategies to navigate Deaf space and to handle interruptions. Grammar topics include retelling and using role shifting in narratives, agreement verbs, and negations. Can count towards Haverford's Language Requirement. Pre-requisite(s): ASL I
An introductory survey of linguistics as a field. This course examines the core areas of linguistic structure (morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics), pragmatics, and language variation in relation to language change. The course provides rudimentary training in the analysis of language data, and focuses on the variety of human language structures and on the question of universal properties of language.
This course is a hands-on investigation of sentence structures in human language. This is a participation intensive course. Collectively, the class will develop an increasingly complex syntactic theory starting with basic assumptions and seeing where they lead. In the process, students will develop skills in observing syntactic patterns and analyzing these patterns in order to come to some generalizations on their own.
This course focuses on the study of meaning in human language. We will explore semantic issues that arise from the lexicon, the sentences, and the discourse. Along the way, we will investigate not only the semantic structure of natural language but also pragmatic factors that affect language use. This is a participation-intensive course. In the process, students will not only learn the basic semantic theory but will also develop skills in observing semantic patterns and analyzing these patterns in order to come to some generalizations on their own. Prerequisite(s): Any previous linguistics class or instructor permission.
This course investigates the sound patterns found in human languages. Phonetics is the study of these patterns from a physical and perceptual perspective while phonology is the study of sound patterns from a cognitive perspective. Activities in the class will expose students to the methodologies used by both perspectives (articulatory description and acoustic analysis for phonetics and formal theoretical models for phonology) and show the necessity and utility of both approaches in understanding the nature of sound patterns in human language.
LING H125SOCIOLINGUISTICS: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY1.0
An introduction to the connection between language and social and identity as it is studied from a variety of methodologies and perspectives, including ethnography, variationist sociolinguistics, and experimental sociolinguistics in the lab. Students will collect and analyze data from real-life speech to explore the social correlates of linguistic behavior, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze their data.
LING H204TOPICS IN INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING: LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION1.0
A general introduction to computer programming, in the context of its application to a specific discipline such as Data Analysis or Bioinformatics. Prerequisite for CMSC 107, along with discipline-specific analysis. Not for students who have completed CMSC 105 and/or 107. This course is equivalent to CMSC 104. Prerequisite(s): LING H101, H113, or H115
LING H214SPANISH IN THE US: LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND POLITICS1.0
The course introduces students to basic concepts of (critical) sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. It examines the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies and policies reflect and shape societal views of Spanish and its speakers (and contribute to discrimination and social injustices). Course taught in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): Course at the 200-level in Spanish or Linguistics
LING H215THE STRUCTURE OF COLONIAL VALLEY ZAPOTEC1.0
A detailed examination of the grammar of Colonial Valley Zapotec, an indigenous language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Focus on hands-on research, morphological analysis, and translation of archival documents. Prerequisite(s): LING 113; and one of the following: LING 101, 114, 115, or instructor consent
Mam is a Mamean-branch Mayan language spoken predominantly in Guatemala, although smaller communities exist in Mexico and the United States. In this course, we examine Mam in depth, covering topics from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialectal variation, and sociolinguistics. This course will afford students the opportunity to study a non-Indo-European language systematically while contributing to research on this underdocumented language. Pre-requisite(s): (LING H113 OR LING B113 OR LING S050) AND (LING 101 OR LING 114 OR LING 115 OR instructor permission)
A seminar course on how humans acquire native language(s). The class surveys acquisition theories and the experimental methodologies that test them. Topics include a range of linguistic areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), and contexts (monolingual, multilingual, and atypical development). Crosslisted: Linguistics, Psychology Prerequisite(s): Any one of the following: LING 101, 113, 114, 115, or Swarthmore equivalent.
LING H250SEMINAR IN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: ACQUISITION1.0
This course provides theoretical and empirical breadth in advanced topics in phonetics and / or phonology. It also serves to introduce students to new ideas and recent developments in the field. Topics vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite(s): LING 115
LING H260LINGUISTS AS PARTNERS IN LANGUAGE WORK0.5
This course prepares students for doing language work with community partners, e.g. through a summer internship. Students will consider ethical and cultural questions that might arise in the context of language work. Students will review technical skills they might need to be good partners in language work, such as elicitation and data workflow. This half unit course will be held once a week, starts in the second half of Spring semester. Pre-requisite(s): instructor permission
This course familiarizes students with original research in semantics. We review the basics of formal pragmatics, compositional semantics, lambda calculus, and event semantics. Then we read and discuss a selection of research articles, culminating in a final research project. Prerequisite(s): LING 114
This course is designed to acquaint students with both the syntactic and semantic structures of Mandarin Chinese and the theoretical implications they pose to the study of natural language. Students will have an opportunity to further their understanding of linguistic theories and to develop skills in analyzing a non-Indo-European language systematically.
A course designed to both provide theoretical and empirical breadth in advanced topics not covered in the introductory syntax courses, as well as introduce students to new ideas and recent developments in the field. Topics vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite(s): LING H113 or LING S050
Students will explore the methods and tools used in research in many linguistics subfields, such as theoretical, corpus, experimental, and sociolinguistics. We will study examples of previous senior theses as well as published articles, identifying their research questions, contributions, and argument structure. Students will also work on a topic of their own choosing, compiling and synthesizing literature and culminating in a research proposal that could serve as the starting point for their senior thesis. Pre-requisite(s): Any TWO of the following, or instructor permission: LING101 (S001) Introduction to Linguistics, LING125 (S025) Sociolinguistics, LING113 (S050) Syntax, LING114 (S040) Semantics, LING115 (S045) Phonetics and Phonology Lottery Preference: 1) Senior majors, 2) Junior Majors, 3) Minors, 4) Everyone else
LING H365THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD1.0
The course will explore the relationship between (national) identity and language, and the specific outcomes of (language) policies and educational practices in societies where Spanish is spoken, generally alongside other mother tongues, often as the dominant language, but also in a minority situation. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted: Spanish, Linguistics
This seminar exposes students to linguistic research methods and guides them through the conceptualization of a topic, the research, and the writing of a senior thesis. All linguistics majors must write their senior thesis in this seminar or Ling S100 or S195. Enrollment limited to 15 students, Senior linguistics majors only.
