ANTH 302(S) Native Languages of North America (Same as Linguistics 302)

LING 302(S) Native Languages of North America (Same as Anthropology 302)
This course surveys the languages indigenous to North America (including Mexico), and addresses such topics as grammatical (phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic) diversity among these languages; language families and other historical relationships in the Americas; the use of linguistic evidence to address the issue of the first peopling of the Americas; and historical and contemporary cultural contexts of language use in the Americas, including issues surrounding language maintenance and revitalization, and colonial contact and language death.
Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: participation in discussions, occasional homework assignments, one or two midterm exams, an oral presentation, and a final project.
Prerequisites: Linguistics 100, Linguistics 200, Linguistics 210, or permission of instructor. No enrollment limit (expected: 10).
Hour: HAUGEN