WORLD LANGUAGES

Catalog description

This course is required for the Linguistics major and minor and for the TESOL minor. This course is also an elective for the International Studies major and minor and the Anthropology minor and satisfies the linguistics foundation course for all Modern Languages majors in French, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Fulfills a Critical Inquiry Humanities requirement in the UCA Core. This course provides an introduction to the world’s languages from geographical, historical, social, and psychological perspectives. Emphasis is on the diversity of the world’s languages as well as their underlying unity. Lecture, discussion.