ESL 601 - INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

3 Credit Hour(s)
This course will examine interactions of language with geographic location, social status, age, ethnicity, gender, and school. Other components will be used of language in multilingual speech communities, displacement of one language by another, reasons for language changes, attitudes towards languages, and social aspects of language. This course assesses advanced critical thinking skills through scholarly reading and written analysis. Three hours of lecture.