ENGLISH: HISTORIES AND VARIETIES.

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Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 . Introduces the history of American English through literature and poetry. Briefly covers the history of English in the United Kingdom looking at Beowulf in multi-media formats. Then, looking at English’s arrival in the United States before focusing on speech communities, dialects, and accents, English in educational policy, language change, and the idea of a “Standard English” as reading works that address—either directly or indirectly—issues related to English diversity.