200-Level Courses
LING 230 : Language, Mind, and the World.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| DESCRIPTION: | Broad overview of language as the medium that makes thinking, understanding, communications, and teaching possible. |
LING 299R : Academic Internship: English Language Teaching.
(1-9:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 377R. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Students with focused training teach specific English skills to speakers of other languages in the U.S. or abroad. |
300-Level Courses
LING 330 : Introduction to Linguistics (Modern).
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| DESCRIPTION: | Basic understanding of linguistic systems. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. |
LING 377R : Basic Training in TESOL.
(1-3:ARR:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | On demand. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Planned participation in IAS- or U.S.-based English teaching experience. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Basic preparation to teach English to speakers of other languages in particular settings. |
| NOTE: | Especially for international service volunteers who plan to teach ESL or EFL. |
400-Level Courses
LING 420 : Phonetics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330. |
| DESCRIPTION: | General inventory of speech sounds possible in language, from both an acoustic and articulatory point of view. |
LING 427 : Phonology and Morphology.
(3:3.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330 or ELang 223. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Introduction to phonology and morphology in the world's languages emphasizing the analysis of English. |
LING 430 : Theoretical Syntax.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223 or Ling 330. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Theoretical comparison and contrast of different sentence types. Methods of argument to develop and critique generative theories of lexical categories, grammatical roles, and syntactic structure. |
LING 441 : Language Acquisition in TESOL.
(2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Understanding fundamental theories and processes of first and second language acquisition. How teachers can enhance language learning in English as a second or foreign language. |
LING 450 : Introduction to Historical-Comparative Linguistics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330 or ELang 223. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Theory and method of language change via comparison of daughter languages and reconstruction of their ancestral language: phonological, morphological, semantic, and lexical. |
LING 461 : Language Assessment in TESOL.
(2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223, Ling 441; Ling 477 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Understanding key issues in language testing, writing good language tests and test items, and completing basic test and item analyses. |
LING 473 : Literacy Development in TESOL.
(2:2:.5)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223, Ling 441. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Understanding basic processes of literacy development in English as a second or foreign language. How knowledge of these processes informs classroom literacy instruction and practices. |
LING 477 : Methods and Strategies in TESOL.
(3:3:.5)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, Sp |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223; Ling 441 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Instructional methods and strategies for teaching English as a second or foreign language. Overview of curriculum development for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing. |
LING 478 : Language Teaching Methods: MTC.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Instructional methods and strategies for teaching second and foreign languages at the Missionary Training Center (MTC). |
LING 485 : Corpus Linguistics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330, ELang 223, or ELang 273. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Using large collections of texts for teaching and particularly for research, including many types of linguistic variation |
LING 490 : Senior Seminar.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330. |
| RECOMMENDED: | Ling 420, 427, 430, 450. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Reading and discussing major issues in linguistics, writing a senior paper, and reviewing content of core courses. |
LING 496R : Academic Internship: TESOL.
(.5-9:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223, Ling 441, 473, 477. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Individualized work or volunteer experience in a domestic or international setting. |
| NOTE: | International internships must be coordinated through International Study Programs. All internships require prior departmental approval. |
500-Level Graduate Courses (available to advanced undergraduates)
LING 500 : Introduction to Research in TESOL.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | Admission to TESOL graduate certificate or language acquisition MA program. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Research questions in language teaching and learning, literature review, research design, data collection, and interpretation. Understanding research methods as used in others' studies. |
LING 521 : Phonology.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Distinctive values of speech sounds: their function in the communicative process. Analysis of phonological data via postulation of underlying forms and derivational rules. |
LING 540 : Language Acquisition.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 330 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | First- and second-language acquisition viewed in light of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. |
LING 545 : Psycholinguistics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W |
| PREREQUISITE: | ELang 223 or Ling 330 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | How the mind interprets, stores, retrieves, and produces language. Anatomical structures and physiological processes of the brain dealing with language. |
LING 558 : Historical-Comparative Linguistics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 450 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Learning theory and method of language change via comparing daughter languages and reconstructing ancestral languages. Language universals and typology. |
LING 577 : TESOL Methods and Materials.
(4:4:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | ESL 404 or native English speaker. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Foundation course surveying concepts, procedures, and techniques in second/foreign language teaching methodology and materials selection. Includes observing actual classes and participating in a mentored teaching practicum. |
LING 579 : TESOL Student Teaching.
(3:0:8)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 577 and departmental consent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Sustained and supervised practice teaching at the English Language Center. |
LING 580R : Problems in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics.
(1-3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | On demand |
| DESCRIPTION: | Advanced research in language acquisition, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistics field study, applied linguistics. |
LING 581 : Natural Language Processing.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F |
| PREREQUISITE: | Good programming skills in at least one language (preferably LISP, Prolog, C, C++, Perl, or Java) and a knowledge of basic, discrete math. Upper-division linguistics/computers and the humanities students with less programming experience may enroll with instructor`s consent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Intensive overview of natural language processing, including computational techniques, hands-on experience with linguistic technologies and corpora, language modeling approaches, and readings from current research. |
LING 590R : Readings in Linguistics.
(1-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Individual study of current linguistic literature. Occasional discussion sessions with instructor and other class members. |
| NOTE: | Pass/fail grade only. |
LING 595 : (Ling-FLang) Research Design in TESOL.
(1:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| OFFERED: | Sp |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ling 500; admission to TESOL MA (thesis option) or language acquisition MA program; preliminary draft of rationale and review of literature for MA thesis. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Research design options for examining language acquisition and teaching. Designing research and writing the third chapter of the MA thesis. |
| NOTE: | Students may enroll concurrently for up to 2 hours of Ling 699R (thesis) credit. |
LING 596 : Research Design in Linguistics.
(1:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | Admission to linguistics MA program. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Research options in linguistics. Selecting thesis topic and writing first chapters of MA thesis. |
| NOTE: | Students may enroll concurrently for up to 2 hours of Ling 699R (thesis) credit. |