Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
MODL
Course Subject
MODL
Course Number
1010
Course Section
01
Course Title
The Language Phenomenon
Academic Term and Year
Fall 2015
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
Grell, Erik, "MODL1010-01.The Language Phenomenon.F15.Grell,Erik" (2015). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 6013.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/6013