Apr 03, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

LIN 101 - Human Language


An introduction to the fundamental areas and concepts of modern linguistics. Sounds and their structure, word structure, and sentence structure are discussed. Other topics may include historical linguistics (how languages change over time), dialects, writing systems, language and the brain, and psycholinguistics (especially the question of how children acquire a language).

3 credits

DEC: F

SBC: SBS, SNW