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Language and Space — LIN4113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The physical space around us may seem to be universal, but differences in how people interact with/in their environment (e.g. via settlement patterns, architecture, or agriculture) have long been topics of scholarly inquiry. This course continues this legacy by studying how humans perceive, conceptualize, and describe spatial relationships and their surrounds through the
Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language at the Margins — LIN2111.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Credits: 4
Do emoji count as language? What about birdsong? How about the gestures of people and other primates? Can we consider ‘boom’ and ‘pow’ words of the English language? This course investigates forms of communication often considered peripheral to the linguistic system, focusing on how meaning is created and shared through “marginal” language practices. We will analyze how systems
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language Contact and Shift — LIN2107.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Credits: 4
Languages shift and change over time, and while much of this is due to new innovations by speakers, languages can also change due to contact with other languages. Throughout the course, we will examine various situations of contact and how the sociocultural factors shape the languages. We will examine English’s own history of contact, particularly with the French language, and
Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation and Description — LIN4109.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Credits: 4
In this course, we will learn about the current language endangerment crisis and methods that can be implemented to mitigate it. The course will be both theoretical and practical, starting with a discussion of the reasons for the loss of linguistic diversity around the world and what linguists are doing as a response. Students will concurrently learn language documentation
Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation and Description — LIN4111.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Credits: 4
This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork on un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Students will learn techniques of data collection, elicitation, management
Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation, Revitalization, and Reclamation — LIN4115.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course addresses the theories, methods, ethics, and actual outcomes of language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation work. Students will examine the causes and consequences of language endangerment, strategies for revitalization, and community-led initiatives in reclaiming linguistic and cultural heritage. Case studies from around the world will

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Language Evolution, Extinction and Survival — LIN2102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
In this class, we will explore the life cycles of human languages: their genesis, their continual change, how they give rise to descendants and how they, in many cases, come to disappear. The 21st century represents a watershed moment in the history of the world’s language population, as expert estimates predict that anywhere from 40-80% of its 7,000+ languages may cease to be
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language in Greater Vermont: Diversity and Relationships — LIN4102.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
In this course, students will utilize primary and secondary sources to explore language and language use in Vermont and surrounding regions.  Our exploration will span from the pre-Columbian era till present, and address the diversity and inter-relationships of the languages and language varieties utilized in and around Bennington, and how these link to broader phenomena
Society Culture and Thought

Language in the Mediterranean: Integration, Fragmentation and Movement — LIN4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean represents a critical site of interaction between speakers of three of the world’s largest language families; nevertheless, linguists typically treat this contact and cross-pollination as an incidental, even distorting product of the families’ southern/northern/western peripheries, rather than as constituting a dynamic center of gravity for linguistic and
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language Series —

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits:
The Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures presents the Language Series every term.  The purpose of the Language Series is to provide students opportunities to explore and deepen their knowledge in the study of foreign languages and cultures.  The Language Series events such as presentations and workshops are related to the foreign language courses that are

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors biographies, it is expected that we will
Languages

Language through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages

Language through Film — SPA4721.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Cultural Studies and Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages