Courses

Students will engage with a native speaker of an unfamiliar language and collectively work out the rules and patterns of their language based on their responses. Students will learn state-of-the-art techniques in video and audio recording as well as creating time aligned annotations and linguistic databases. The course will be typologically oriented, meaning we will tackle grammatical themes with a view towards cross-linguistic comparison.

An introduction to phonetic science as used in linguistic theory and research.Addresses how speech sounds in the world’s languages are articulated and transcribed with the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as the use of acoustic analysis software to reveal acoustic properties of consonants, vowels, and prosody.

A one-credit add-on course to a regular subject matter course on a corequisite basis. This course works on writing that is integral to the subject matter of the main course. Corequisite means that all students in the regular course will be in the writing workshop. The combination of a regular course and a writing workshop satisfies one of the college's writing-intensive course requirements. May be repeated for credit.

An exploration of the relationship between language and social life in Latin America through ethnographic work. Students will be introduced to some of the most important theoretical discussions in linguistic anthropology and to relevant ethnographic cases that illuminate those discussions.

This course provides a theoretical and practical background in the issues related to the development of reading and writing for second language, bilingual children, and adolescents. Among the units are the relationships between oral and written language, the role of oral language acquisition and phonemic awareness, the influence of sociocultural factors, developing advanced literacy through the language arts and literature, and the effect of specific language disabilities.

The history and problems of literary criticism from Plato to the present, with special emphasis on continental criticism. Not open to students who received credit for ENGL 382.

Exploration of literary history as a mode of inquiry, asking how authors and their creations have responded to predecessors, and how such responses have transformed literature in English over time. The course examines both how literary traditions have been constructed in the past and what conceptual tools we now have available for defining and describing literary traditions. The course includes material from before 1800 and after 1800, as well as material from at least two national literatures.

Exploration of literary history as a mode of inquiry, asking how authors and their creations have responded to predecessors, and how such responses have transformed literature in English over time. The course examines both how literary traditions have been constructed in the past and what conceptual tools we now have available for defining and describing literary traditions. The course includes material from before 1800 and after 1800, as well as material from at least two national literatures.

Literary representations in relation to anthropological theories, methods, and subject matter. The thematic focus and texts studied vary each semester. Students may repeat this course more than once if the topic and works studied are different.

The diverse literature (poetry, drama, essays, memoirs, novels) emerging from armed conflicts of all types and intensities (revolutions, civil wars, colonial wars, wars of conquest, global wars beyond established borders), from a global comparative perspective. Particular emphasis will be placed on modern conflicts, but works such as the "Iliad" and "The Song of Roland" may also be included. Strategies of conflict resolution will form an important component of class discussion and investigation.