LING Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
13928	LING 60 - 001 First-Year Seminar: How Reading Works: Language, Cognition, and Literacy	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Jennifer Smith	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1370	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: How do we go from looking at symbols on a page or screen to understanding the writer's message? How do children learn to read, and what ways of teaching reading best promote success for all students? We will explore these questions through analysis of language and writing structure and discussion of research data. Your final project will address a real-world question about reading, literacy, or reading education from the perspective of language and cognition. 3 units.
6439	LING 101 - 001 Introduction to Language	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Brian Hsu	Howell Hall-Rm 0115	82/109	Seats filled	108/135	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units.
6443	LING 101 - 002 Introduction to Language	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Esther Chen	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	27/30	Seats filled	27/30	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units.
6632	LING 101 - 003 Introduction to Language	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Samantha Golden	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	28/30	Seats filled	28/30	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units.
6440	LING 101 - 601 Introduction to Language	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Trey Anthony	Phillips Hall-Rm 0206	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units.
6441	LING 101 - 602 Introduction to Language	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Rebecca Galloway	Woollen Gym-Rm 0304	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units.
6442	LING 101 - 603 Introduction to Language	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Rebecca Galloway	Stone Center-Rm 0209	20/35	Seats filled	20/35	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units.
6468	LING 101 - 604 Introduction to Language	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Trey Anthony	Murray Hall-Rm G201	18/35	Seats filled	18/35	0/999
Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units.
8613	LING 200 - 001 Phonology	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Jennifer Smith	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	13/35	Seats filled	13/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Description and analysis of sound systems of languages around the world. Introduction to formal phonological models, argumentation, and hypothesis testing. Students may not receive credit for both LING 200 and LING 523. 3 units.
13929	LING 202 - 001 Linguistic Variation and Language Change	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	David Mora Marín	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	25/35	Seats filled	25/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Introduction to the analysis and description of language change, relationships among languages, and types of linguistic structure. Students may not receive credit for both LING 202 and LING 525. 3 units.
9557	LING 360 - 001 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:30PM	BRUNO ESTIGARRIBIA	Dey Hall-Rm 0101	0/3	Seats filled	0/3	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, SPAN 300 or SPAN 301; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Introduction to the linguistic study of sound, meaning, grammatical form, dialectal and sociolinguistic variation, with a particular focus on modern Spanish and the languages of Spain and Latin America. Previously offered as SPAN/LING 377. 3 units.
12498	LING 376 - 001 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	MARTHA RUIZ-GARCIA	Dey Hall-Rm 0301	Seats filled	Seats filled	3/3	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, SPAN 300 or SPAN 301; permission from the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Introduction to the description of sound systems with a focus on Spanish. Includes the study of the historical development of Spanish and its areal and social variation in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. 3 units.
18028	LING 395 - 018 Group Mentored Research	MoWeFr 2:00PM - 5:00PM	Jennifer Arnold	TBA	2/5	Seats filled	2/5
Description: Permission of instructor. Students gain first-hand experience conducting research as part of a research group working together on a single project under the advisement of a faculty member. Topics will vary. 1 - 3 units.
13930	LING 401 - 001 Language and Computers	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	KATYA PERTSOVA	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	20/35	Seats filled	20/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Uses simple linguistic problems to introduce students to the use of programming languages especially suited to analyze and process natural language on the computer. No prior programming knowledge is presupposed. 3 units.
12811	LING 460 - 001 Making Sense of Big Data: Textual Analysis with R	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Elliott Moreton, Emma Wrenn	Global Education, F-Rm 1005	56/60	Seats filled	56/60	0/999
Description: The course covers methods for working with textual data (corpora, databases, etc.) that include data cleaning techniques, graphing, statistical analysis, web-scraping, and categorization models. Students will complete their own data project by the end of the course. 3 units.
4577	LING 520 - 001 Linguistic Phonetics	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Elliott Moreton	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	17/30	Seats filled	17/30	0/999
Description: Introduction to the general principles of linguistic phonetics; anatomy of vocal tract, physiology of speech production, universal phonetic theory. Practice in the recognition and transcription of speech sounds. 3 units.
13933	LING 528 - 001 Language Acquisition I	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	MISHA BECKER	Murphey Hall-Rm 0222	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. One course in phonology or syntax recommended. Child language from a theoretical perspective. Topics include segmentation problems, acquisition of phonology, morphology and syntax, lexical acquisition, and language development in blind and deaf children and in bilinguals. Students may not receive credit for both LING 203 and LING 528. 3 units.
10625	LING 530 - 001 Syntactic Theory I	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Brian Hsu	Phillips Hall-Rm 0220	13/20	Seats filled	13/20	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Methods and theory of grammatical analysis within the transformational generative framework. Special emphasis on analyzing syntactic and semantic structures of English. Students may not receive credit for both LING 201 and LING 530. 3 units.
9454	LING 537 - 001 Semantic Theory I	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	JULES TERRY	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	16/35	Seats filled	16/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101 or 400. Semantics as a part of linguistic theory: co- and disjoint reference among nominals, "crossover" phenomena, quantifier scope, lexical semantics, Montague grammar and compositional semantics, and explanatory universals in semantic theory. 3 units.
8201	LING 541 - 001 Sociolinguistics	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	David Mora Marín	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	17/30	Seats filled	17/30	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101 or 400. Introduction to the study of language in relation to society; variation as it correlates with socioeconomic status, region, gender; the social motivation of change; language and equality; language maintenance, planning, shift. 3 units.
13934	LING 545 - 001 Language and Mind	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	KATYA PERTSOVA	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	11/35	Seats filled	11/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, ENGL 213, LING 101, LING 400, or PHIL 145; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. The course treats the relationship among linguistics, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophies of mind, language, and science. 3 units.
9278	LING 700 - 001 Linguistics Colloquium	Fr 3:30PM - 4:50PM	JULES TERRY	Smith Bldg-Rm 0107	12/30	Seats filled	12/30	0/999
Description: This course corresponds to our weekly department colloquium, which gives students an opportunity to learn about current research in the field from local and external invited speakers, present their own work in progress or completed thesis research, and to engage in a variety of professional development activities led by faculty. 1 units.