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LANGUAGES OF  THE WORLD (MIS, B.) (satisfies VIII. International/Global Studies)

The world has over 6,000 languages, with an exuberant variety of sounds, words, grammars. introduction to a representative (about eight), drawn from every continent. Students not expected to learn these languages, but to explore and study their structure and complexity. 

DISCOVERING LANGUAGE (BAR-SEVER, G.) (satisfies VII. Multicultural Studies)

Explores language's prevasiveness and diversity; demonstrates ways linguistics illuminates language's crucial-albeit hidden-societal role. Issues: self-and group-identification, language death, language in legal and educational settings, illustrations: spoken and signed languages, varieties of English, and Native American languages. 

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS (NGUYEN, E.) (satisfies III. Social and Behavioral Sciences & V.B. Formal Reasoning)

Emphasis on the notion that language is a remarkable achievement of the human mind. Current insights into the nature of language. Survey of various subfields of linguistics. Introduction to linguistic analysis. 

INTRO TO PHONOLOGY (TRAN, T.) (satisfies III Social and Behavioral Sciences & V.B. Formal Reasoning)

Basic concepts in phonetic description and phonological analysis.

ACQUISITION OF LANG BAR-SEVER, G.) (satisfies III Social and Behavioral Sciences)

What children say, what they mean, and what they understand. Theories about the learning of language by one-, two-, and three-year-olds. Comparison of kinds of data on which these theories are based.

BILINGUAL EDUC (TORRES, J.)

Provides a comprehensive overview of current issues in bilingual education and bilingualism. Topics include dimensions of bilingualism, the effects of bilingualism on children's linguistic and cognitive development, bilingual education programs, literacy, special needs, and assessment.

FORMAL LANGUAGES (MAYER, C.)

Prerequisite for the course; LSCI 3 plus some basic familiarity with programing. A background in Python is preferable, but the course will cover Python basics briefly in the first week. The programing prerequisite can be fulfilled by ICS 31/ICS 32A/EECS 12, or by permission of the instructor.

INTRO TO LOGIC (STAFF)

Introduction to sentence logic, including truth tables and natural deduction; and to predicate logic, including semantics and natural deduction.

ELEMENTARY SET THEORY (MEADOWS, T.)

An introduction to the basic working vocabulary of mathematical reasoning. Topics include sets, Boolean operations, ordered n-tuples, relations, functions, ordinal and cardinal numbers.

COG NEUROSCI OFLANG (KROLL, J.)

LANGUAGE SCIENCE RESEARCH 1 (SCRONTAS, G.)

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