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See why students love LING 220: Introduction to Linguistics, and enrol today!
Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to communicate. In LING 220, you鈥檒l be inspired to learn how language works in all of these ways and more. Linguistics advances knowledge of how we socialize, how we understand or misunderstand one another, and how we use language to interpret the world around us.
Topics include sounds (phonetics and phonology), words (morphology), sentences (syntax), pattern and variation analysis (corpus linguistics), narratives and conversations (discourse analysis), meaning (semantics and pragmatics), and the study of individual languages.
This course develops problem-solving and critical thinking skills through hands-on training in pattern recognition and language data analysis. It is open to all students and fulfills the breadth requirement for Social Sciences.
There's still time to enrol in LING 220 for Fall 2025 with Ashley Farris-Trimble! She is the Director of the .
