Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Linguistics (LING)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some LING courses.
LING 200 INTRO TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAG Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to concepts and terminology in the scientific study of language. Includes sound systems (phonology), construction of words (morphology), organization of words in the sentence (syntax), meaning (semantics), and information flow (pragmatics), as well as a survey of interdisciplinary uses of linguistics such as historical linguistics (archaeology), dialectology (sociology), and language acquisition (psychology, cognitive sciences, and language teaching). FOUNDATION COURSE. Also offered as ANTH 200 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA 002 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 300 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Language as an object of scientific analysis, focused on how different languages organize semantic and pragmatic information into simple sentences. Topics: morphology, syntactic categories and constituency, propositional semantics, tense-aspect-modality, pragmatic information status, grammatical relations, and voice systems. Prereq- Ling 200 or permission of instructor. FOUNDATION COURSE Also offered as ANTH 300 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 305 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Exploration of the nature of language change in its phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and sociocultural aspects, using the perspective of language acquisition. Includes techniques of internal and comparative reconstruction of proto-languages. Required for linguistics majors; may substitute Ling 315. Prereq- Ling 200, 300, or 301 or permission of instructor. Also offered as ANTH 305 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 306 LANGUAGE & MIND: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of language as a cognitive system. Includes the expression in language of linguistic data and thought patterns as evidence for the cognitive structures and processes that enable people to learn and use language. Prereq- Ling 200 or 300 or permission of instructor. 001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 315 SEMANTICS: INTRO TO THE STUDY MEANING Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in Linguistics and related fields Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Prereq- Ling 200 or permission of instructor. Also offered as PSYC 315 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 330 INTRO TO TRAD CHINESE POETRY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II No description Also offered as LING 530 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 340 THEORY & METHODS OF TEACHING ESL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to the theory and practice of teaching a second language. Includes the process of language learning viewed from social, psychological, and linguistic perspectives, as well as commonly used teaching "methods," such as the audiolingual method, situational language teaching, the natural approach, and TPR, among others. Required for linguistics majors in second language acquisition concentration. 001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 345 LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF KOREAN Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This course focuses on the origin and development of the Korean language including its relationship to other Asian languages, its writing system (which is praised as the most scientific system ever invented by humans), and other distinctive features, such as the differences in male and female language usage, different social contexts for conversation, local dialects, etc. This class will provide a good foundation for any student who is interested in Asian cualture. Class will be conducted in English, no previous knowledge of Korean is required. Also offered as KORE 345 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 352 INTRO TO SANSKRIT II Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This course is a continuation of Ling 351, Sans 301 and aims at developing vocabulary and grammatical skills through reading biblical prose and poetic texts. Prereq- Ling 351. Also offered as RELI 352 001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 353 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Philosophical investigation of relations among language, thought, and reality. Prereq- Two courses in linguistics or philosophy. Also offered as PHIL 353 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 394 STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics. Required for linguistics majors in second language acquistion concentration. Also offered as ENGL 394 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 395 HIST OF THE ENGLISH LANG Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Survey of 6,000 years of language history. Includes the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic history of the English language from its Indo-European origins, through the Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, and up to the present day. Also offered as ENGL 395 001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Gerhardt, Cornelia Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 402 SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of semantic categories and their formal expression in morphological, syntactic, and lexical units and patterns. Also offered as ANTH 402 001 TBA - MWF 10:00PM - 10:50PM Davis, Philip W. Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 406 COGNITIVE STUDIES-LING & ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and the logical principles underlying them. Also offered as ANTH 406 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 408 FIELD TECHNIQUES & ANALYSIS Credits Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Ling 407. Also offered as ANTH 408 001 TBA Gildea, Spike L O Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 409 SPECIAL TOPICS: GOTHIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Topic changes from year to year. May be repeated for credit. Prereq- Ling 300 or permission of instructor. 001 TBA - MW 03:00PM - 04:20PM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 410 RHETORIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Overview of classical series of rhetoric and followed by more intensive dicussions both of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Also offered as ANTH 412 001 TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 413 FORMAL THEORIES OF SYNTAX Credits 3.00 Spring 00 A survey of current formal theories of syntax: Government and Binding Theory, Lexical Functional Grammar, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar. 001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 415 LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Topic: Issues of language and gender, race and class. The course will begin with an overview of contemporary sociolinguistic theory and methodologies. We will then examine the linguistic consequences to speakers of their membership in groups defined in terms of gender, race and class. 001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 423 THE SPANISH LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Synchronic study of modern Spanish phonology and syntax, including peninsular and Hispanic-American variants. Also offered as SPAN 424 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 433 LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF GERMAN Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Synchronic study of modern German phonology, syntax, and semantics, including aspects of discourse structure. Also offered as GERM 433 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 434 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Aspects of the history of German phonology, syntax, and semantics (with related systems) from its Proto-Indo-European origins to the present. Also offered as GERM 434 001 TBA Copeland, James E. Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 435 TOPICS IN GERMANIC LINGUISTICS Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 437 A HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Survey of linguistic theories from the book of "Genesis", the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, The Alexandrians, the Stoics, the Modistae, the German Romantics, the Neo-Grammarians down to de Saussure. Readings will be from original sources only. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 480 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00 Independent study 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 481 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 482 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 500 LINGUISTIC ANALYIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 300. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 502 SEM IN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 402. 001 TBA - MWF 10:00PM - 10:50PM Davis, Philip W. Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 505 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 305. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 506 COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 306. 001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 508 LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY Credits Spring 00 Continuation of Ling 507. 001 TBA Gildea, Spike L O Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 515 SEMANTICS: INTRO TO THE STUDY OF MEANING Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 315. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 516 STUDIES IN HISPANIC LING Credits Spring 00 No description Also offered as SPAN 516 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 530 CORPUS LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 330. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: LING 540 THEORY AND METHODS OF TEACHING ESL & FOR Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Ling 340. 001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 550 DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM Credits 1.00 Spring 00 Faculty, graduate students, and invited guests meet weekly to present reports on current research or to discuss current issues in linguistics and semiotics. 001 TBA Gildea, Spike L O Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 552 SEMINAR IN SYNTAX & SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Complex expressions. 001 TBA Davis, Philip W. Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 553 SEMINAR LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - W 02:00AM - 05:00AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 581 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 582 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 583 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 584 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 585 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 586 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 587 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 588 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 590 TEACHING LINGUISTICS Credits 1.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: LING 591 TEACHING LINGUISTICS Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 611 SEMINAR: Credits Spring 00 The course, a continuation of Fren 610, allows students to gain further knowledge and expertise in aspects of Language Methodology by attending a series of workshops on topics such as Technology and Language Learning, Writing, and content-based instruction. Students will also complete assignments that supplement or expand on the material presented in the workshops. Also offered as GERM 611 001 TBA Kecht, Maria-Regina Enr: 0 Max: NA LING 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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