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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Liberal Study
Upper Level
Credits: 4
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Spring 1. Fall 1.
Course Description:
Language and Culture is a course designed to help students become familiar with the theory and research related to issues such as 1) the ways in which language behavior reflects diverse cultural patterns; 2) the role of language in the processes through which children and adolescents become members of particular groups in society; 3) the relationship between class, race, gender, institutional setting, and linguistic choice; and 4) the educational implications of culturally based variation in students’ preferred styles of speaking and writing.
This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.
