Courses in Linguistics
ENG 3303. The
English Language: Development, Nature, and Structure.
Modern English with historical backgrounds: phonology, morphology,
syntax, vocabulary, and usage. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3363. Introduction to Linguistics. A survey of the
techniques and practice of recent linguistic theory, including the
structural and transformational concepts of English syntax and
semantics. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3373. Contrastive Linguistics. Contrastive analysis of
the linguistic differences (phonological, lexical, and syntactical)
between Standard American English and Spanish and between Standard
English and minority dialects. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5043. English Grammar and Syntax. Historical background
of morphology and syntax related to basic structure and the
contributions of the prescriptive and the descriptive grammarians
and the transformationists. Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree with
concentration in English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5163: Sociolinguistics. Investigates relationships
between language and society. Includes linguistic identity of social
groups, social attitudes to language, patterns of national language
use, social varieties of language, social basis of multilingualism,
etc. Employs both empirical and ethnographic methods. Three seminar
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5363: Studies in Linguistics. Directed investigation of
problems such as feminism and language, pragmatics, linguistic
discourse analysis, linguistics and composition. May be repeated for
credit when the specific topic of investigation varies. Three
lecture or seminar hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5713. Old and Middle English Language and Literature.
Topics in language and literature before 1500 including history and
development of the language before 1500, and survey of Old and
Middle English Literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
semester hours.
ENG 5043: English Grammar and Syntax. Historical background
of morphology and syntax related to basic structure and the
contributions of the prescriptive and the descriptive grammarians
and the transformationists. Prerequisites: Bachelor’s degree with
concentration in English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5163: Sociolinguistics. Investigate relationships between
language and society. Includes linguistic identity of social groups,
social attitudes to language, patterns of national language use,
social varieties of language, social basis of multilingualism, etc.
Employs both empirical and ethnographic methods. Three seminar hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
