LING 314CS. Language in Life: Community-Engaged Linguistics (3)

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Students will explore the significance of language in their life, local community, and broader U.S. society, applying this knowledge in a project with a local community partner. Students will examine how language functions as a means of expressing and constructing identity and consider how social variables, such as minority status, class, race, ethnicity, region, and social context are indexed through language practices. Students will also consider the interplay between language and power, investigating how people’s attitudes toward their own and others’ language practices reflect underlying belief systems that may be connected to and reproduced by systems of power. In the community-based learning project, students will contribute to a project in which they develop and share educational resources related to course topics with a community partner. Available for General Education, Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences. (W.I.)