Course Summary

Learning this course aims the students to be able:

To understand what linguistics is, what and how it studies
To build the basic knowledge of the origin of language, its structure and functioning in the society, correlation of lingual and mental processes, interdependence of language and culture, etc
To familiarize the terms, universal properties of human language and language diversity

Learning Outcomes

demonstrate clear understanding of what linguistics is, what and how it studies
identify the basic units of language, sounds and symbols, as well as the terms, e.g; phone, phoneme, morpheme, allophone etc
identify the acceptable structure of basic units of language and classify/divide the constituents of a particular larger unit, such as, clause/sentence, as well as construct the acceptable structure of a particular unit
show awareness of diverse reference/ meanings of a particular unit of language

Total Modules

14 weeks

Hybrid