LIN-571 Training Across Cultures |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring |
This course cannot be used as an elective to the MA Linguistics degree program without the permission of your program advisor.
This course provides linguists, translators and literacy trainers with principles of adult learning to increase their knowledge, skills and attitudes as effective trainers of adults in cross-cultural settings. Students will interact with literature in adult education; describe how these principles might apply cross-culturally; practice teaching using these methods; then analyze and compare approaches used in other cultures with practical application to training across cultures. While the focus is for training linguists, the principles can be applied to training adults in a wide variety of training situations.
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LIN-575 Scripture Engagement |
3 Sem. Hours |
Summer |
This course cannot be used as an elective to the MA Linguistics degree program without the permission of your program advisor.
This course focuses on literature use as the goal of a language development project. The course is designed to create an early awareness of the interrelated parameters of literature use, its timing in language development planning, and the logistics of promotion and distribution. Topics covered include: culture variation and cross-cultural communication, the role of religion in culture, literacy strategies, promotion and distribution methods and strategies, and the role of non-print media. A few workshop sessions may be planned upon request for those already involved in a language program. Participants with sufficient field data and/or experience may work on their own data/projects for the class assignments, in consultation with the instructor.
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LING-555 Historical & Comparative Linguistics |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall |
This course introduces students to language change. It considers how and why languages change and the role of language contact. It also presents different theories and methodologies useful for historical and comparative linguistic investigation. Through a series of guided assignments, students will investigate a number of related existing languages from a non-Indo-European language family and reconstruct significant elements of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of the proto-language.
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LING-566 Principles of Sociolinguistic Survey |
3 Sem. Hours |
Summer |
This course introduces the students to the rudiments of linguistic and sociolinguistic survey. The focus is on purpose-driven language survey design and appropriate subsequent reporting of the findings. Consideration is given to current issues in social science research such as the ethics of sampling, and statistical significance of sample populations.
Co-requisites:
LING 210 Language and Society
LING 310 Articulatory Phonetics
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LING-576 Acoustic Phonetics |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall |
This course introduces students to fundamental principles of acoustics that are relevant to the study of human speech sounds. Students will gain a basic understanding of properties of speech sound waves and learn how to investigate these properties instrumentally using acoustic analysis software. There will be extensive practice interpreting acoustic displays such as waveform graphs, fundamental frequency graphs, and spectrograms. A major focus of the course is the effective use of these displays as an aid to correctly transcribing speech sounds and understanding their phonetic properties in the context of descriptive phonetic and/or phonological fieldwork. Significant attention is also given to the complex interrelationships among acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual correlates of speech sounds.
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LING-581 Anthropological Linguistics: Ethnography |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Spring, Summer |
This course introduces crucial concepts in anthropology and ethnography to linguists. It focuses on cross-cultural communication with an emphasis on participant observation as an effective methodology for such research. Students will collect and analyze data related to topics such as oral traditions, kinship, and social structure. They will be introduced to various tools for ethno-semantic analysis, including analysis of cultural themes and worldview, semantic domain analysis, and taxonomic analysis. Pre-requisite: LING 210 Language and Society or equivalent introduction to sociolinguistics.
Prerequisites:
LING 210 Language and Society
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LING-582 Issues in Community Literacy |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring |
The issues in community literacy work that are covered in this course include various program issues such as introducing literacy in an oral community, motivation for literacy, capacity building and sustainability, training of personnel and evaluation of the program, and using participatory approaches in all aspects of the program.
Prerequisite:
LING-LIN 4/584 Principles of Literacy
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LING-582 OL Issues in Community Literacy – ONLINE VERSION |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Spring, Summer, OL |
The issues in community literacy work that are covered in this course include various program issues such as introducing literacy in an oral community, motivation for literacy, capacity building and sustainability, training of personnel and evaluation of the program, and using participatory approaches in all aspects of the program.
Offered online by request only.
Prerequisite:
LING-LIN 4/584 Principles of Literacy
Note:
In the Spring semester this online class is only available for students who do not have access to the Langley campus, or who have a schedule conflict with the regular class.
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LING-583 Language Programs Design & Management |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring |
This course investigates the sociolinguistic and background factors upon which a language development program for speakers of vernacular languages may be based. Students learn to work with local people and agencies in designing and implementing a program to effectively meet the needs of specific language groups.
Prerequisites:
LING 210 Language and Society
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LING-583 Language Programs Design & Management – ONLINE VERSION |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Summer, OL |
This course investigates the sociolinguistic and background factors upon which a language development program for speakers of vernacular languages may be based. Students learn to work with local people and agencies in designing and implementing a program to effectively meet the needs of specific language groups.
Prerequisites:
LING 210 Language and Society
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LING-584 OL Principles of Literacy – ONLINE VERSION |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Spring, Summer, OL |
This online course covers principles involved in the introduction of literacy to ethno-linguistic minority groups. It includes orthography design, consideration of socio-historical issues, strategies for literacy programs, stimulation of local authorship, reading theory and instructional methodologies, and a literacy tutorial practicum. Under certain conditions a term paper may be substituted for the practicum.
Prerequisites:
LING 310 Articulatory Phonetics
LING 330 Phonological Analysis
Note:
During Summer and Fall this online class is only available for students who do not have access to the Langley campus, or who have a schedule conflict with the regular class.
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LING-584 Principles of Literacy |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Summer |
This course covers principles involved in the introduction of literacy to ethno-linguistic minority groups. It includes orthography design, consideration of socio-historical issues, strategies for literacy programs, stimulation of local authorship, reading theory and instructional methodologies, and a literacy tutorial practicum. Under certain conditions a term paper may be substituted for the practicum.
Prerequisites:
LING 310 Articulatory Phonetics
LING 330 Phonological Analysis
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LING-586 Advanced Phonological Analysis |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring |
An overview of current phonological theory with an emphasis on those theories that make a significant contribution towards the development of practical orthographies. In particular, students are introduced to Stratal Optimality Theory, which they apply to the analysis of problematic data from a number of different languages. The course also emphasizes descriptive linguistics and students are taught how to integrate insights from phonological theory into phonological descriptions. Minimum grades of B- are required for LING 310 and LING 330 (program prerequisites).
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LING-587 Lexicography |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring, OL |
This course provides a theoretical and practical basis for analyzing the semantics of the lexicon, managing a lexical database and producing dictionaries for a variety of audiences including the local community, translators and linguists.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 4/580 Field Methods: Data Management & Analysis
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LING-588 Literacy Materials Development |
3 Sem Hours |
Spring |
This course teaches students how to prepare basic pedagogical materials and early readers in languages that may not have a long written tradition. Special emphasis is given to teaching techniques for involving the local language community in the production of these materials.
Prerequisite:
LING-LIN 4/584 Principles of Literacy
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LING-588 OL Literacy Materials Development – ONLINE VERSION |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Spring, Summer, OL |
This online course teaches students how to prepare basic pedagogical materials and early readers in languages that may not have a long written tradition. Special emphasis is given to teaching techniques for involving the local language community in the production of these materials.
Offered online by request only.
Prerequisite:
LING-LIN 4/584 Principles of Literacy
Note:
In the Spring semester this online class is only available for students who do not have access to the Langley campus, or who have a schedule conflict with the regular class.
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LING-599 Philosophical Perspectives in Linguistics |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall |
This course will examine the philosophical basis of human language and communication, with special attention to issues relating to semantics, discourse, lexicon, metaphor, and translation–all the areas that deal with meaning creation. There will be a critical review of some major schools of thought within philosophy of language and hermeneutics. These will be examined in light of current insights in textlinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and integrational linguistics.
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LING-650 Survey of Linguistic Theories |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring, OL |
This course introduces students to a wide range of linguistic theories. Students read and discuss original works written from various perspectives and gain in the process a clearer appreciation for the range of views that exist concerning the nature of human language and its syntactic, semantic, phonological, and discourse properties.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 4/560 Morphosyntax II
Note: Online
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LING-660 Topics in Morphology & Syntax |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, OL |
An article based course providing an in-depth exploration of current issues in the linguistic subfields of Morphology and Syntax. The types of topics addressed include: wordhood, clitics, grammatical relations, voice, valence, transitivity, noun incorporation, control constructions, raising, reflexivity & reciprocalization, complementation, evidentiality, secondary predication, and iconicity & economy. Students apply the acquired knowledge in producing a major paper.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 560 Morphosyntax II
Note: Online
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LING-680 Advanced Field Methods |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall |
In this course, students transcribe, organize and analyze language data and prepare a written description of phonological, morphosyntactic, or discourse features of the language. The course focuses on applying effective fieldwork methodologies.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 4/586 Advanced Phonological Analysis
LING-LIN 4/580 Field Methods: Data Management & Analysis
LING-LIN 4/560 Morphosyntax II
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LING-685 Linguistic Academic Writing – ONLINE |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring, OL |
Develops skills in academic writing for linguistics, including how to write articles, abstracts, theses, books, etc.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 680 Advanced Field Methods
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LING-688 Tone Analysis |
3 Sem. Hours |
Spring |
This course introduces students to a methodology for tone analysis, focusing on the analysis of one field language and incorporating the insights of current theoretical approaches. They will also learn how to apply insights from the analysis of a tone system to developing practical orthographies.
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LING-691 Discourse Analysis |
3 Sem. Hours |
Fall, Spring |
This course focuses on the question of how speakers of a given language effectively accomplish their communicative goals through the strategic use and shaping of language in both written and oral discourse. Students learn to identify different discourse genres, to chart texts for analysis, to discern hierarchical units within the macrostructure of a text, and to describe features of cohesion and participant reference, as well as identifying strategies in language for establishing the relative prominence of various streams of information. Special attention is paid to the interaction between alternate syntactic forms and their varying pragmatic functions in context.
Prerequisites:
LING-LIN 4/580 Field Methods
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