ANTH 120 - S/Language and Culture

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences

An introduction to the study of language as a social resource and speaking as a cultural practice. This course gives students theoretical tools to examine how human communities use language to create, sustain, and change the social world. Topics include: linguistic heritage, regional and social dialects, language and cognition, racism/ethnicity/gender/class, and global language shifts.

Offered: Every Fall Semester