ISS 2770 Cultural Diversity in the United States. Credits: 3 This course focuses on the great racial and ethnic diversity of contemporary U. S. society. It explores both the positive contributions and negative experi- ences of a variety of racial and ethnic groups, an explo- ration drawing on such concepts as culture, racial group, ethnic group, prejudice, discrimination and civil rights protest. SLS 1102 Enhancing the Freshman Experience. Credits: 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF 1992-93 Casagrande J., Director; Boxer, D.; Burns, A.F; Chu, C.C.; de Beaugrande, R.; Der-Houssikian, H.; Hardman-de-Bautista, M.J.; Hollien, H.; Jensen, P.J.; Kotey, P.A.; Lipski, J.; Mallen, E.; Markel, N.N.; McCarthy, K.M.; Miller, D.G.; Mohamad, M.; Nelson, M.; Pharies, D. Scholes, R.J.; Sullivan, W.J.; Thompson, R.M.; Tyler, A.E.; Wehmeyer, A.; Wible, D.; Wyatt- -Brown, A. Undergraduate Coordinator: M. Nelson Graduate Coordinator: W.J. Sullivan Office: Anderson 112 (392-0639) ADMISSION TO THE MAJOR: At the under- graduate level, linguistics offers a major leading to the B.A. degree. This major is designed to provide a back- ground in the study of language, language use, lin- guistic structures and linguistic theory. Admission will be based on a student's total record including educational objectives, courses completed, quality of academic record, and other important facts. Priority in admission will be given to those students whose potential on the basis of the total record indicates the greatest likelihood of success in the field. Applications or admission into the program should be addressed to the Undergraduate Adviser of the Program (Anderson 112). THE MAJOR: The student who gains admission to the program must earn a grade of C or higher in a minimum of 35 semester hours distributed as follows: A. Program Core Courses (12 credits) Students must take all of the following: LIN 3010 Introduction to Linguistics LIN 3200 The Sounds of Human Language LIN 3460 Traditional Grammars LIN 3611 Languages and Dialects B. Program Elective Courses (23 credits) Students must take at least 23 credits of linguisti- cally-oriented courses selected from the 4000 level courses listed below, and from 3000 and 4000 linguis- tically-oriented courses listed in this catalog. No 2000 level courses count towards program electives. All program elective courses must be approved by the Undergraduate Adviser. HONORS: A student who wishes to graduate with Honors in Linguistics must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher in the major. For high honors or highest hon- ors, there is also a requirement of an original senior thesis. LIN 4970 (Senior Thesis, 4 cr.) may be taken three times. THE MINOR: To be granted a minor in Linguistics a student must complete, with a 2.0 aver- age, fifteen (15) credits of courses offered by the Program in Linguistics (courses prefixed LIN or TSL). Other acceptable credit can be earned in LIN-prefixed courses offered by cognate departments. No more than six (6) credits may be transferred from another school or earned in cognate departments. No more than three (3) credits may be earned at the 2000 level tt Grading is on S-U basis only. or in LIN 4905. No less than (3) three credits may be at the 4000 level. OVERSEAS STUDY: Students interested in study abroad should consult with a department advis- er or the Overseas Studies Office in 123 Tigert. GENERAL EDUCATION: To study linguistics is primarily to examine language as a general phe- nomenon which is characteristic of human behavior. Linguists are interested in understanding language structure, language use, and the interrelationship of all constituent elements of language. Our department offers courses which satisfy different aspects of the General Education requirements, from the physics and physiology of the sounds used in language to analytical theories of language structure, via key aspects of the social sciences and valuable insights into cultural diversity. In providing this service to Florida citizens, we hope to prepare them for an enlightened view of the language problems and poli- cies that are inherent in our culturally diverse state. Linguistics LIN 2000 Language: Humanities Perspective. F, S, SS. Credits: 3 The nature of human language. (H) LIN 2001 Language: Social Science Perspective. F, S. Credits: 3 How language structures the interaction of the indi- vidual with the environment. (S) LIN 3010 Introduction to Linguistics. F, S, SS. Credits: 3 Survey of the main areas of the discipline, covering such topics as phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphol- ogy, semantics, dialects, linguistic change, linguistic diversity, writing, neurolinguistics and computational linguistics. (H) LIN 3200 The Sounds of Human Language. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: LN 3010. Study of sounds, their patterning, and function in lan- guages of the world. (I) LIN 3460 Traditional Grammars. F. SCredits: 3; Prereq: UN 3010. Review and evaluation of the principles of traditional grammar as reflected in the works of the best gram- marians. Illustrations in several languages. Comparison of varieties of grammatical models used to describe these languages. Evaluation of degree to which a grammar developed essentially for Latin describes other languages, particularly non- Indoeuropean languages. Practice and evaluation of different models of parsing. LIN 3611 Languages and Dialects. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: LIN 3010. An introduction to the defining characteristics and varieties of human natural languages and dialects. Presentations include a model of the nature of lan- guage, a survey of language families, the unity of lan- guages and their diversity, areal linguistics, pidgins, creoles and international languages. (I, S) LIN 4005 Leading Ideas in Linguistic Theory. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: LN 3010, LIN 3450. Analysis of linguistic data in syntax, morphology and phonology. Current theoretical ideas, argumentation. LIN 4205 Fundamentals of Phonetics. F. Credits: 3 Introduction to acoustic phonoetics, physiological phonetics, percetual phonetics, symbols of speech and associated analytical apparatus. LINGUISTICS LIN 4320 Introduction to Phonology. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: UN 3200. Phonemics, syllabic and prosodic phenomena, neu- tralization, distinctive features, morphophonemic alternation, phonological systems and processes. Terminology and notational conventions of generative phonology. Problems from a variety of languages. LIN 4400 Introduction to Morphology. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: LIN 3460. Theory of word structure, derivation and inflection. The position of morphology in a grammar, the rela- tionship between morphology and the rest of gram- mar, typology, cultural and conceptual categories, predictions of various theories or morphology. Examples and problems from a wide variety of the world's languages. LIN 4500 Introduction to Syntax. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: LIN 3460. Structures of sentences, clauses, and phrases (heads, complements, specifiers, and modifers); grammatical relations; sememic roles; case, concord, and govern- ment; anaphora; universals, typology. Issues include autonomy, modularity, X-bar Theory, the nature of syntactic rules, underlying and surface structures. Problem solving. Exercises from a wide variety of lan- guages. LIN 4570 Structure of a Specific Language. Credits: 3; Prereq: UN 3010. Linguistic examination of one of the following: Aymara, Arabic, Cakshiqual, Eskimo, Armenian, Ga, Bulgarian, Polish, Swahili, Twi, Turkish, Quechua. LIN 4600 Survey of Sociolinguistics. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: UN 4320, LIN 4500, or LIN 4400. Major approaches to language in context: ethnolin- guistic, sociological, linguistic. Applications of Sociolinguistics to Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Education. Collection and analysis of data. LIN 4656 Gender and Language. S. Credits: 3;Prereq: LIN3010 Language in the construction of sex and gender roles within a culture. Grammaticalization of gender in languages of the world. Interaction of grammatical structures with gender stereotypes. Consequences of these interactions on grammatical structures. LIN 4721 Second Language Acquisition. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: UN 3010 The neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolin- guistic bases of second language acquisition in child- hood and adulthood. LIN 4747 Contrastive and Error Analysis. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: LUN3010 English phonology, syntax, semantics, and orthogra- phy compared to those of other languages, with impli- cations for second language acquisition. LIN 4905 Individual Study in Linguistics. F, S, SS. Credits:1 to 3 Individual study for Linguistics majors. LIN 4970 Senior Thesis. Credits: 4; max. of 12 GRADUATE COURSES Please refer to the Graduate Catalog for graduate course listings. Service Courses for International Students English for Nonnative Speakers ENS 2441 English Language and Writing for Foreign Students. Credits: 3 A composition course designed to teach the basics of expository writing. May be taken by foreign students as the equivalent of ENC 1101.