Undergraduate Linguistics Courses (LING)
(list from the UO Catalog)
LING 101 Introduction to Language (4)
Nontechnical introduction to language. Issues of general concern such as language attitudes; language and legislation, nationalism, gender; language learning; and human language versus animal communication.
LING 150 Structure of English Words (4)
Word structure and derivation in English; Greek- and Latin-derived vocabulary; Germanic- and Romance-derived derivational rules. Understanding the dynamic structure of the English lexicon; prefixes, suffixes, and morphology.
LING 160 Language, Power, and Gender (4)
How power is reflected, achieved, and maintained through language, with special emphasis on the relationship between power hierarchies and women's versus men's use of language.
LING 162 Nature versus Nurture in Language (4)
Compares biological (nature) and social (nurture) factors in explaining how language structure develops and is used by the individual and by language communities.
LING 211 Languages of the World (4)
Survey of the variability and distribution of the languages of the world in terms of linguistic typology, genetic relationships, and geographic location.
LING 290 Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (4)
Study of human language and linguistics as a scientific and humanistic discipline. Basic concepts of lexicon, phonology, syntax, semantics, and language change.
LING 295 Language, Culture, and Society (4)
Ways in which language reflects culture and in turn determines cultural world view, interaction between language and social structure, social relations and interpersonal communication.
LING 315 Language and Categorization (4)
Introduces various theories of linguistic meaning and categorization, then applies them to categorization of sounds, parts of speech, semantic networks, perspective, metaphore, and linguistic relativity. Prereq: sophomore standing or higher.
LING 331 Africian Languages: Identity, Ethnicity, History (4)
Introduction to the role of languages in understanding African identities, cultures, and migrations. Major language families, linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and historical change in African languages.
LING 396 Language and Cognition (4)
How human thought is coded by language. Topics include meaning, categorization; linguistic units and speech behavior; language use and memory.
LING 407/507 Seminar: [Topic] (1-5R)
Topics include history of linguistics, language contact, morphology, discourse pragmatics, conversational analysis, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, applied linguistics.
LING 410/510 Experimental Course: [Topic] (1-5R)
Recent topics are Classical Tibetan, English Phonetics and Phonology, First-Language Acquisition, Old Irish.
LING 411/511 Phonetics (4)
The articulatory and acoustic basis for the classification and description of speech sounds; relevance of this phonetic base to phonological analysis. Pre- or coreq: LING 290.
LING 415/515 Semantics (4)
Survey of the fundamentals of semantic ehtory from traditional formal logic to modern cognitive approaches. Additional coverage of fundamental notions in pramatics. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 423/523 Fieldwork Methods and Ethics (4)
Qualitative methodology in cross-cultural fieldwork from an interdisciplinary perspective. Ethics and techniques in preparation for the field, field relations, leaving the field. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 432/532 Pathology of Language (4)
Examines the language symptoms of aphasia, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurological and psychiatric conditions from a neurolinguistic perspective. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent, or instructor's consent.
LING 435/535 Morphology and Syntax (4)
Introduction to English Phonetics and phonolgoy, methods for teaching pronunciation, lesson plan development and practice teaching. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 440/540 Linguistic Principles and Second-Language Learning (4)
Introduction to how languages are learned in school contexts; underlying human-language principles. Special attention to learning issues that classroom teachers need to address. Prereq: instructor's consent. Students cannot receive credit for both LING 440/540 and 444/544.
LT 441/541 Teaching English Pronuncation (4)
Introduction to English phonetics and phonology, methods for teaching pronunication, lesson plan development, and practice teaching.
LING 444/544 Second-Language Acquisition (4)
Introduction to cognitive and social processes of acquiring second languages. Prereq: LING 290. Students cannot receive credit for both LING 440/540 and 444/544.
LT 445/545 Second-Language Teaching (4)
Approaches and methods of teaching and second languages. Theoretical principles of language teaching: pedagogical principles for second-language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and composition. Prereq: LT 440/540 or 444/544.
LT 446/546 Second-Language Teaching Practice (4)
Intensive workshop and practice in teaching instruction. Practical methods for developing skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing,a nd testing second languages. Prereq: LT 445/545.
LING 450/550 Introduction to Phonology (4)
Study of sound systems in language. Phonemic contrasts, allophonic variation, and complementary distribution in relation to lexical coding of words, sound production, and sound perception. Prereq: LING 411/511 or equivalent.
LING 451/551 Functional Syntax I (4)
Syntax within grammar; its interaction with lexical meaning, propositional semantics, and discourse pragmatics; syntactic structure; case roles; word order; grammatical morphology; tense, aspect, modality, and negation; definiteness and referentiality. Prereq: LING 435/535.
LING 452/552 Functional Syntax II (4)
Complex syntactic structures and their discourse function; embedded, coordinate, and subordinate clauses; nondeclarative speech acts, topicalization, contrast, and focusing; transitivization and detransitivization. Data from various languages. Prereq: LING 451/551.
LING 460/560 Historical and Comparative Linguistics (4)
Principles of language change and the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction; typological change in phonology, morphology, and syntax; language families and protolanguages. Prereq: LING 450/550, 451/551.
LING 490/590 Sociolinguistics (4)
Language in relation to social and interpersonal interaction. Topics may include dialect geography, social and ethnic dialects, language contact, bilingualism and multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, or conversational analysis. Prereq: LING 450/550.
LING 494/594 English Grammar (4)
Survey of grammatical, syntactic, and morphological structures of English in terms of semantic and functional criteria.
LING 495/595 Language and Gender (4)
An objective investigation of differences between women's and men's use of language on all linguistic levels, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and discourse. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 196 Field Studies: [Topic] (1-2R)
LING 198 Workshop: [Topic] (1-2R)
LING 199 Special Studies: [Topic] (1-5R)
Survey of various topics in linguistics.
LING 399 Special Studies: [Topic] (1-5R)
LING 401 Research: [Topic] (1-21R)
Individual research supervised by a faculty member. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 403 Honors Thesis (1-21R)
LING 405 Reading and Conference: [Topic] (1-21R)
Individual reading and bibliographic work supervised by a faculty member. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 406 Field Studies: [Topic] (1-21R)
LING 407/507 Seminar: [Topic] (1-5R)
Topics include history of linguistics, language contact, morphology, discourse pragmatics, conversational analysis.
LING 408/508 Workshop: [Topic] (1-21R)
LING 409 Supervised Tutoring (1-21R)
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