Fall 2021 Course Offerings
Communication Studies and Disorders
COMD 2050鈥揑ntro to Language
Section 1: 12:00-1:20 TTh; 220 Coates
Section 2: 1:30-2:50 TTh; 220 Coates
Also offered as LING 2050. Linguistic study of the principal interrelated levels of language structure: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics; related topics such as writing systems and dialects.
COMD 3150鈥揚honetics
10:30-11:20 MWF; 152 Coates; T. Gibson
Also offered as LING 3150. Principles of phonemics; articulatory phonetics; description and classification of sounds; transcription at different levels of detail; production and perception.
COMD 4153鈥揂coustics of Speech and Hearing
10:30-11:50 TTh, 116 Stubbs; 3:30-5:20 M, 212 Coates; H. Chung
Also offered as LING 4153. Prereq.: COMD 2050 or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Production, transmission and perception of speech acoustics in communication; acoustic phonetics and psycho-acoustics.
COMD 7750鈥揝pecial Topics in Linguistics
4:30-7:20 W; 47 Hatcher; S. Duncan
Also offered as LING 7750. May be taken two times for credit for the master鈥檚 degree and four times for the doctorate when topics vary. Topics to be announced.
English
ENGL 2716鈥揕anguage Diversity, Society, & Power
10:30-11:20; 127 Coates; I. Shport
This is a General Education course. Also offered as LING 2716. Social construction of language ideologies and issues of power as they relate to language variation and use. Examination of why language variation exists and how dialect intersects with race, gender, and social class, with particular focus on political and social identities. Discussion focus on how dialects and 鈥淪tandard English鈥� contribute to persistent economic and civic inequalities in contemporary American society.
ENGL 3716鈥揇ialects of English
10:30-11:50 TTh; 131 Allen; A. Camp
Also offered as LING 3716. Regional and/or social variation in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
ENGL 4710鈥揑ntroduction to Linguistics
12:30-1:20 MWF; 269 Woodin; I. Shport
Also offered as LING 4710. Introduction to the major fields of linguistic study: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics.
Foreign Languages and Literatures
SPAN 4005鈥揝tructure of the Spanish Language
3:30-4:20 TTh; 269 Woodin
Also offered as LING 4005. Prereq.: SPAN 3010 or equivalent. Spanish morphology and syntax; structuralist, sociolinguistic and generative-transformational analyses and applications.
SPAN 4602鈥揝panish Phonetics
1:30-2:50 TTh; 112 Prescott; J. King
Also offered as LING 4602. Spanish phonetic systems; corrective and fluency drills in the language laboratory; problems of teaching Spanish pronunciation to English-speaking students.
French Studies
FREN 3080鈥揊rench Culture and Civilization
12:00-1:20 TTh; 111 Coates; F. Anselmo
Also offered as LING 3080. Prereq.: FREN 2155; credit or registration in FREN 3060 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Various aspects of French culture and civilization; emphasis on those factors necessary for understanding contemporary France and the Francophone world.
FREN 4014鈥揑ntroduction to French Linguistics
1:30-2:50 TTh; 434 Hodges
Also offered as LING 4014. French phonology, morphology and syntax.
Geography and Anthropology
ANTH 4004鈥揟he North American Indians
2:30-3:50 MW; 27 Allen; M. Brody
Also offered as LING 4004. Origin, distribution, language and culture of the aboriginal population.
ANTH 4060鈥揕anguage and Culture
11:30-12:20 MWF; E131 Howe Russell; M. Brody
Also offered as LING 4060. Prereq.: ANTH 3060 or COMD 2050 or equivalent. Relationships between various aspects of language and culture.
Philosophy and Religious Studies
PHIL 2010鈥揝ymbolic Logic I
12:00-1:20 TTh; 132 Lockett; J. Roland
This is a General Education course. Also offered as LING 2010. Classical propositional and first-order predicate logic; syntax and semantics of formal languages; translation between formal languages and English; formal methods of proof.