Course Catalog Information (24-25)
ANTH 6
Linguistic Anthropology
Course Description
A cross-cultural investigation into the relationship between language and culture: language as a human attribute; language structure, historical origins, diversification, and change; gender and cultural variations in language usage; comparative analysis and classification of world languages; the origins and development of writing; microelectronics and the advent of the information age; globalization and language.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate value of each different language and dialect, and its relationship to different cultural backgrounds, in which social conflicts and stereotypes are often originated from misunderstanding different rules of language practice even when using the same language.
- Analyze different sound systems of different languages which make non-native speakers speak foreign languages with accents.
- Analyze patterns of linguistic change by investigating historical changes in different languages.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze languages in social and cultural contexts, to build a lot of verbal and nonverbal characteristics to illustrate cultural uniqueness.
- Demonstrate the similarities and differences in various linguistic practices and its relevance to anthropological concepts.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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