Course details

Name: ENGM - 384

Title: GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This is a Service Learning course requiring 20 hours of community service from each student.

What is language? We use it almost continually in virtually everything we do. It is in some sense the most familiar thing to us—it defines us as human beings—and yet, how well do we understand it?

We study language for years in school without ever mastering it. Why is this? Is this because we teach it in ineffective ways, or because it is just too complex to master, or because we don’t yet understand what it is or how it is learned… or for some other reason?

In this course we will look at language from several theoretical perspectives: grammatical, social and cultural, political, cognitive, practical, personal, generative and aesthetic, among others. We will think about the implications of these perspectives for learning, intellectual growth and social change, and experiment with alternative language theories and practices which might work better in literacy development, education and society.

Last updated on 2011-11-01 By Whitney Robert (whitneyr)

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Class Issues (3d)
• Study of American English (TE 4a)

Teaching Faculty: Whitney Robert (whitneyr)

Is course canceled: No