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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:

LIN 6145 | LIN 6150 | LIN 6200 | LIN 6300 | LIN 6365 | LIN 6370 | LIN 6400 | LIN 6410 | LIN 6430 | LIN 6601 | LIN 6900 | LIN 6950 | VIEW ALL
LIN 6145: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Provides a thorough study of sound systems and processes, with problem-solving experience in the analysis of English and other languages. This course is specifically geared to the needs of language teachers.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6150: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Features a thorough study of word structures and processes, with problem-solving experience in the analysis of English and other languages.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6200: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Presents an intensive study of the research literature so that students will become familiar with recent findings on the acquisition of a second language and with the research process.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6300: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Studies the nature of language change, illustrated by the history of the Indo-European language family, especially English. Presents a diachronic study of phonology, morphology and syntax, with emphasis on reconstructed Indo-European, classical texts and modern European diversity. Offered alternate years.
LIN 6365: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Overviews the theoretical paradigms of second language learning and teaching; definition and evaluation of communicative competence; strategies for teaching skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing; and selection and development of instructional materials.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6370: () Offerings
Provides an intensive review and in-depth study of traditional English grammar with attention to simple and complex phrase and clause structure pro-forms and discourse functions.
LIN 6400: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Provides an intensive investigation into non-English sentence structure. Examines basic rule-making and rule-testing in a variety of languages. Not offered every year.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6410: () Offerings
Prerequisite: LIN 2100. Provides an intensive investigation into contemporary English sentence structures through the application of current syntactic theory. Examines basic rule-making and rule-testing in English.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6430: () Offerings
An overview of the field of sociolinguistics, which examines language in its behavioral context. Students read and discuss prominent literature among the three branches of sociolinguistics: the ethnography of communication, linguistic variability; and the applied field known as language planning. Not offered every year.
LIN 6601: () Offerings
Examines Anglo-Saxon, middle and modern forms of English in historical development and individual language systems. Includes phonology, morphology, syntax and some of the relationships of each language stage to literary expression during its era. Offered alternate years.
LIN 6900: () Offerings
Student works with a faculty member on a mutually agreed upon topic.
Restrictions:Undergraduate are excluded.
LIN 6950: () Offerings
Focuses on topics relating to linguistics. May be repeated for credit 1 time.



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