Words as a gateway to the human mind. How words are stored, comprehended and retrieved. How words are constructed. Words and concepts. Words and social constructs. The processing and the acquisition of words in normal and atypical children and adults.
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
Discourse patterns among diverse social groups in institutional and interpersonal settings; interrelationships among language practices and gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity; social structures and cultural values as reflected in language policies and practices.Concurrent Enrollment: WRIT 140.
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
Note: Register for lecture, one discussion, lab and one section of WRIT 140 listed below (unless you have already satisfied the Writing Requirement)
Focuses on analytical and argumentative writing skills requisite to academic and professional writing. Emphasizes logical analysis of texts and other data, effective use of evidence, ethical argumentation, and stylistic and grammatical fluency. Requires concurrent enrollment with an affiliated General Education course in the Social Issues category. Students must achieve a satisfactory score on the verbal portion of the SAT, the USC Writing Examination, or credit for WRIT 120 or 121 before enrolling in WRIT 140.
Introduction to current Arabic; oral practice, hearing and reading comprehension; the grammar necessary for simple spoken and written expression. Lecture, classroom drill, laboratory practice.
Note: D-clearance for Arabic I is available in person in THH309, by phone at 740-1188, by email language@usc.edu.
Introduction to current Hindi. Oral practice, listening and reading comprehension; grammar necessary for simple spoken and written expression. Lecture, classroom drill, laboratory practice.
Note: D-clearance for Hindi I available in person THH309, by phone 740-1188, or email language@usc.edu.
Continuation of 122. Reading of simple Arabic prose, practice in pronunciation, the grammar essential for reading comprehension and writing. Lecture, classroom drill, and laboratory practice.
Continuation of LING 152. Reading selections from Arabic newspapers and current prose, continued study of grammar for reading comprehension. Lecture and classroom drill.
Continuation of Hindi 155; intensive work in listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing short essays; introduction of readings and periodials related to Hindi culture and civilization.
Language within cognitive science: speech physiology and acoustics, language acquisition, reading, language disorders, perception and mental representation of words, linguistic diversity and computer analysis of speech.
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
The interaction of language with society in countries of East Asia: language and identity, the politicization of language, language change, language and gender.
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EALC department but may qualify for major credit in LING. To register, enroll in EALC 374.
Experimental and theoretical aspects of how spoken and written language is produced and understood, learned during childhood, andaffected by brain damage.
Principles of semantics; analysis of speech acts including informing, promising, threatening, warning; linguistic analysis of consumer contracts and advertisements; readability studies.
Topics in advanced formal syntax; current literature leading to open questions in research; survey of important and controversial issues of current theoretical relevance.
