Last generated: Tuesday, July 22 2025 10:16 AM CDT
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
Last generated: Tuesday, July 22 2025 10:16 AM CDT
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
3 hours. Meets 16-Jun-25 - 08-Aug-25. May be offered in a traditional, blended, or online remote format. Check the class schedule for specifics. For both the online and hybrid ("blended-online") formats, computer and internet access are required. A high-speed connection is strongly suggested. Individual and Society course.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24816 | LCD | 10:45 AM - 01:15 PM | TR | 207 | 2GH | Pichan, C; Ward, J | On campus and online | |
| You use language all the time, but do you know about the structures that make up language? In this course, you will learn how we produce and organize sounds, build words, and understand the difference between time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana. Here youll make sense of why people have accents, what teachers should know about language, and why good AI speech recognition is so darn hard to achieve. | ||||||||
3 hours. Meets 16-Jun-25 - 08-Aug-25. Individual and Society, and World Cultures course.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24817 | LCD | ARRANGED | ARR | 2ONL | Hallett, J | Online with deadlines | ||
| There are dozens of whistled languages that are endangered because of cell phones. The most common sentence structure places verbs at the ends of sentences. Almost half of the worlds languages have no written form. You might have to switch reading direction multiple times if you are given an Arabic text that includes numbers. West Africa is currently a creative incubator of writing systems. The worlds over 7,000 languages all serve their speakers needs and yet function in a variety of different and interesting ways. In this course, students will be introduced to various ways in which languages behave and what we can learn from these patterns, like why translation apps sometimes fail so hard. | ||||||||