Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
MODL
Course Subject
MODL
Course Number
1010
Course Section
1
Course Title
The Language Phenomenon
Academic Term and Year
Spring 2017
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
H
Area of Study
FREN, GERM, LING, MODL, SPAN
Course Description
Goals: To understand language, the uniquely human enterprise, and particularly the English language. To describe language - its sound patterns, its forms, its meanings, its structural patterns. To determine how languages are born, evolve, and die. To discern how both first and second languages are acquired. Content: English phonetics, phonology, morphology, writing, syntax, semantics. Language both in its social context - dialects, slang, taboos, language acquisition-and in its historical context-philology and etymology. Class activities may include reading from Lewis Carroll, collecting of speech samples from sound tracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games. Taught: Annually. Credits: 4
Recommended Citation
Hadziavdic, Habiba, "MODL1010-01.The Language Phenomenon.Sp17.Hadziavdic,Habiba" (2017). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 12141.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/12141