Community-Engaged Course Name: ANTH/SOCL 330 – Language, Culture, and Society

 

Community Partner: Commonwealth Catholic Charities

 

Course Description: This course takes a socio-cultural look at language by exploring the relationship between language and society from a global comparative perspective. Students will learn about how language constructs meaning and contributes to the reproduction of both individual and collective identities. Drawing on the insights of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, the course explores major topics in the study of language such as ethnicity, class and gender as well as linguistic rights, minority language revitalization and language policy. Students will also be introduced to conversational and critical discourse analysis methods.