Courses

• GRS LN 951: Directed Study in Hindi-Urdu
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in Hindi-Urdu.
• GRS LN 952: Directed Study in Hindi-Urdu
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in Hindi-Urdu.
• GRS LP 951: Directed Study: Portuguese
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LP 952: Directed Study: Portuguese
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LR 951: Directed Study in Russian Language and Literature
  
• GRS LR 952: Directed Study in Russian Language and Literature
  
• GRS LS 621: Reading Spanish for Graduate Students
  Designed to prepare graduate students for the Spanish reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of Spanish required.
• GRS LS 850: Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature
  May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Three topics are offered Fall 2018. Section A1: Wayward Woman: Picaras, Prostitutes, and Procuresses in the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age. Key narrative works centering on female characters engaged in transgressive social and sexual behavior. Interaction between literary invention and marginalization. Gender issues viewed historically. Works include La Celestina, La Lozana andaluza, La P?cara Justina, La ingeniosa Elena, Teresa de Manzanares. Section B1: What Do We Read When We Read? Interpretation, critical thinking, hoaxes, humour, ethical and political issues are studied through an examination of works by Jorge Luis Borges and Macedonio Fernandez. Section C1: Satisfies departmental theory requirement. Literary Theory from Structuralism to Post- colonialism. Survey of important theoretical works and trends from structuralism through post-colonial theory. Theoretical essays are read in tandem with literary works. Also offered as GRS LF 850.
• GRS LS 951: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LS 952: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LT 951: Directed Study in Turkish
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in Turkish.
• GRS LT 952: Directed Study in Turkish
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in Turkish.
• GRS LX 601: Phonetics & Phonology: Introduction to Sound Systems
  Introduction to the nature and patterning of sounds in human language. Presents articulatory and acoustic phonetics, and basic phonological analysis, focusing on cross-language typology and comparison. Hands- on development of practical skills, including IPA transcription, field techniques, and digital speech analysis. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Phonetics" that was previously numbered CAS LX 510.
• GRS LX 611: Morphology: Introduction to the Structures and Shapes of Words
  Morphology, the study of the internal structure and the shapes of words across languages, straddles the boundary between syntax and phonology. This course covers the major empirical and theoretical issues in the study of morphology, emphasizing links to other components of grammar. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Morphology" that was previously numbered CAS LX 521.
• GRS LX 621: Syntax: Introduction to Sentential Structure
  Introduction to syntax as an object of inquiry. Students build an increasingly sophisticated model of syntactic knowledge to account for data from English and other languages, constructing and evaluating alternative hypotheses about how sentence structure works. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Syntax I" that was previously numbered CAS LX 522.
• GRS LX 628: Questions
  Exploration of question formation across languages, and from several theoretical perspectives, integrating syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology, pragmatics, and philosophy in pursuit of a general understanding of one of the central phenomena in theoretical linguistics. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 519.
• GRS LX 631: Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
  Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Semantics I" that was previously numbered CAS LX 502.
• GRS LX 641: Sociolinguistics
  Introduction to language in its social context. Methodological and theoretical approaches to sociolinguistics. Linguistic variation in relation to situation, gender, socioeconomic class, linguistic context, and ethnicity. Integrating micro- and macro-analysis from conversation to societal language planning. Also offered as CAS AN 521.
• GRS LX 642: Language, Race, and Gender
  Do women talk differently from men? How do race and ethnicity relate to the way people use language? This course examines these interrelated questions from the perspective of modern sociolinguistic theory, analyzing a range of languages and communities throughout the world.
• GRS LX 649: Bilingualism
  The psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics of life with two languages. Topics include bilingual language use, processing, acquisition, organization; effects of bilingualism on cognition and development; the bilingual brain; the bilingual speech community; bilingual education; bilingualism in the media and public eye. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 545.

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