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| Anthropology | |
| ANTH 2400 | Language and Culture (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 2420 | Language and Gender (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Studies how differences in pronunciation, vocabulary choice, non-verbal communication, and/or communicative style serve as social markers of gender identity and differentiation in Western and non-Western cultures. Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language. |
| ANTH 2440 | Language and Cinema (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies. |
| ANTH 2470 | Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470. Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| ANTH 5420 | Theories of Language (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology. |
| Classics | |
| CLAS 3300 | Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language," called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source? Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| CLAS 5300 | Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language," called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source? Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| Education-Human Services | |
| EDHS 4300 | Psycholinguistics & Communication (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course focuses on the psychological processes that underlie the acquisition and the use of language. There is an emphasis on the interaction between linguistic skills and other cognitive skills. Topics include learnability, microgenesis of speech, bilingualism and variation, and a psycholinguistic approach to breakdowns (i.e., language pathology). Course was offered Spring 2013 |
| Linguistics | |
| LING 3400 | Structure of English (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introduces students to the descriptive grammar of English and methods of reasoning about linguistic structure. Covers units of sound and phonemic transcriptions, word building and inflectional forms, lexical categories, basic sentence types, common phrase and clause patterns, and syntactic transformations. |
| LING 5101 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Language (1.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Through this course, students focus on the topic of language in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.
Course was offered Spring 2013 |
| LING 5102 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Culture (1.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Through this course, students focus on the topic of culture in ESL, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.
Course was offered Spring 2013 |
| LING 5103 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Writing (1.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Through this course, students focus on the topic of writing in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours. Course was offered Spring 2013 |
| LING 7400 | Structure of English (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course provides students with a foundation in the grammar of the English language. Topics include phonology, morphology, syntax, with a focus on structural analysis. Students will gain confidence in discussing the form, function, & usage of linguistic structures. These topics will also be related to the teaching & tutoring of English as a second language including error correction & feedback which will be reflected in advanced final papers. Course was offered Fall 2012 |
| General Linguistics | |
| LNGS 3250 | Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introduces sign systems, language as a sign system, and approaches to linguistics description. Emphasizes the application of descriptive techniques to data. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html. |
| LNGS 7010 | Linguistic Theory and Analysis (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Linguistic Theory and Analysis |
| Middle Eastern Studies | |
| MEST 2470 | Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with ANTH 2470. Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| Psychology | |
| PSYC 5310 | Developmental Psycholinguistics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Examines current research and theoretical models of children's language acquisition. Topics include normal children's acquisition of spoken language skills, and the development of communication skills in deaf, autistic, and other groups of language-handicapped children. Prerequisite: Upper-level psychology major or linguistics student, or graduate student in Arts and Sciences or Education. |
| Russian | |
| RUSS 5030 | Advanced Russian I (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | A thorough review of Russian grammar. Prerequisite: RUSS 2010, 2020, and instructor permission. |
| Spanish | |
| SPAN 3000 | Phonetics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Conducted in Spanish. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| SPAN 3200 | Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Conducted in Spanish. |
| SPAN 7220 | History of the Language (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | The development of the Spanish language from its origins. |