Language Matters

Catalog description

Language Matters is of particular interest and benefit to students pursuing various specialties including, but not limited to, Second/Foreign Language Studies; English; Communication Studies; Speech Therapy; Autism Studies; certain specialties within Education, Sociology and Psychology; and Linguistics. This course is geared toward helping students become consciously aware of the role of language in their daily lives. Students will learn to recognize linguistic features of language(s) and will explore current research findings in language-related fields. They will also be encouraged to be “linguists” themselves in the sense that they will document and analyze language-related issues present in daily communicative interactions.