ENGL 3040 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 and sophomore status
This course examines language characteristics, development, variation and change, attitudes and uses. Topics will include but not be limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, onomastics, orthography, language acquisition, dialects and the history of the English language. This course has application to literature, rhetoric and language arts.