Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
What is a language? How many languages are there in the world? How do we go about counting them? How are languages traced to language families? Is there one prehistoric proto-language from which all languages evolved? In this course, we will investigate the diversity of languages and language families around the world, the structural characteristics of these languages, and how languages change over time.
Benefiting from the FirstBridge link to the course “Struggles, Cultures, Identities, and Revolutions in the Modern Middle East”, this course will include an exploration of languages from the Middle East, both spoken and written, from antiquity to modern times. Finally, through collaborative projects, we will consider the issues of linguistic diversity and endangered languages.
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Tuesday
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15:20
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16:40
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Friday
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15:20
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16:40
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| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN Number |
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Languages of the World: An Introduction, 3rd edition
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Cambridge University Press
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9781108748124
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