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Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington

Schedule for Courses:

Undergraduate Classes

Here you'll find a list of undergraduate Linguistics & TESOL courses being offered during the Spring 2010 term.

Spring 2010

(See this semester on UT Arlington's Academic Calendar.)

LING 2301 Introduction to the Study of Human Languages
  Section 001 - MoWeFr 11:00am-11:50am - Call #21476
  Section 002 - MoWeFr 1:00pm-1:50pm - Call #21477
  Section 003 - TuTh 11:00am-12:20pm - Call#21478
  Section 004 - TuTh 2:00pm-3:20pm - Call #21479
  Section 005 - MoWeFr 10:00am-10:50am - Call #21480
LING 2301 provides an overview of an inarguably fundamental human capacity: language. Students will consider a variety of language-related topics in the context of the social sciences, from anthropology to history to psychology. Course readings provide students with exposure to many of the basic concepts and terms used in the study of language and linguistics. Lectures complement the readings by further elucidating key concepts and exemplifying these notions in the context of contemporary society. The goal of LING 2301 is to change students' relationship with language by challenging and enriching thinking about language and raising consciousness of the role that language plays in the minds and communities of humans.

LING 2371 Language in a Multicultural USA (Park)
  TuTh 9:30am-10:50am - Call #23018
This multiculturalism course examines the relationship of language in the U.S.A. to race, ethnicity, class, religion and gender. Topics typically covered include African American English, Spanish-English bilingualism and code-switching, Texas English, Asian language communities, and American Sign Language and Deaf culture. Additional topics vary.

LING 3311 Introduction to Linguistic Science: Descriptive Linguistics (Rhinier)
  TuTh 12:30pm-1:50pm - Call #21482
This course introduces students to the field of linguistics, the systematic study of human language. It will examine the sound patterns of language (phonetics and phonology), words and word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), language in context (pragmatics), language acquisition, and language in social context (sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology). In addition students will learn the methods of linguistic analysis, enabling them to solve problems in phonology, morphology, syntax and historical linguistics.

LING 3330 Phonetics and Phonology (Lober)
  MoWe 5:30pm-6:50pm - Call #21483
This course is an introduction to the sound components of human language: phonetics and phonology. Students will explore the range of speech sounds found in human languages; learn to transcribe speech sounds according to standards used by linguists; consider the systematicity inherent in sound systems across languages; and begin to learn notational and theoretical devices employed by linguists in analyzing phonological phenomena.
Prerequisite: LING 3311

LING 3340 Grammar and Morphology (Jensen)
  MoWe 7:00pm-8:20pm - Call #21484
This course is a survey of the varieties of grammatical constructions found in language. It provides “an introduction to morphological and syntactic analysis, at the upper undergraduate level, which covers both general characteristics of language and specific theoretical formulations and does so through rich exposure to diverse data from the whole world” (Bickford: vii). The objective of LING 3340 is to give students tools to enable them to analyze the grammar of a language by distinguishing between morphological and syntactic phenomena and explicating their interaction with each other. Particular attention will be paid to (1) the differences between derivational and inflectional morphology and (2) syntactic constituent analysis.
Prerequisite: LING 3311

LING 4320 Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Edmondson)
  TuTh 2:00pm-3:20pm - Call #21486
This class is concentrated on language development and change; comparative method and its use in linguistic reconstruction; laws of language change. Some of the material will be concerned with languages in the distant past but we will also examine contemporary examples.
Prerequisite: LING 3311

LING 4354 Methods and Materials to Teach English as a Second Language (Kilpatrick)
  TuTh5:00pm-6:20pm - Call #21487
This course is a continuation of the issues and topics discussed in LING 5301/4353, with a focus on in-depth study of the teaching of reading and writing in the ESL/EFL classroom. Included in the course will be systematic study of the application of linguistic theory to teaching in the classroom, practical application of pedagogical strategies, and development of materials and tasks to stimulate reading and writing skills in L2 learners. A key component of the course is the student’s participation in volunteer ESL tutoring.
Prerequisite: LING 2301

LING 4395 Internship
  TBA - Call #25060 - Contact ling.advisor@uta.edu for more info.
Internship (paid or unpaid) supervised by a faculty internship coordinator, with the student performing duties related to the academic curriculum of linguistics and/or TESOL. Students are required to submit an approved academic project related to the work performed. May be repeated with the approval of the Undergraduate Advisor.

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