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Undergraduate Linguistics Courses

English Department

ENGL 3710: Structures of Modern English

ENGL 3720: Development of Modern English

ENGL 4720: American Dialects

ENG 3740: Language in the Elem. School

ENG 3770: Language in the Multiling. Classroom

 

Foreign Languages Department

FREN 3200: French Phonetics & Phonology

FREN 3260: Introduction to French Linguistics

FREN 4900: Studies in French Linguistics

GER 5590: History of the German Language

LANG 3400/GER 3400: Germanic Linguistics
LANG 2500: The Nature of Language              

LANG 5580: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

LANG 5800: Topics in Language Sciences

(may be cross-listed w/ any language prefix)

 

Spanish Department

SPAN 3240: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

SPAN 4540: Spanish Phonetics

SPAN 4900: Studies in Spanish Linguistics

 

Communications Department

COM 2000: Introduction to Communication Theory

COM 3050: Special Topics in Communication (when linguistic-oriented)

COM 3720: Introduction to General Semantics

COM 4790: Female/Male Interaction (=SOC 479)

 

Speech Pathology and Audiology

SPPA 2000: Communication Disorders and Sciences

SPPA 2030: Normal Language Acquisition

SPPA 2040: Phonetics

SPPA 2050: Speech Anatomy and Physiology

SPPA 2060: Hearing Science

SPPA 2070: Clinical Laboratory

SPPA 2600: Linguistic Development of the Child

SPPA 3510: Phonemic Disorders

SPPA 3530: Fluency Disorders

SPPA 3540: Language Disorders in Children

 

Independent Study (Foreign Language & Spanish Departments)

CHIN/FREN/GER/JPNS/LANG/LAT/SPA 5500