Course Schedule

ANTH 620 – Linguistic Field Techniques

GIDP: Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Practice in asking linguistically informed and ethnographically sensitive questions in face-to-face interaction with a linguistic consultant; techniques of language data analysis and description.

EDL 560 – Trends in Educational Leadership

This class is an introduction to the foundations of educational administration and leadership. An open social-systems model of schools provides the theoretical framework that organizes and relates this theory and research to educational administration practice.

EDL 608 – Advanced Qualitative Methods in Education

The purpose of this course is to deepen the breadth of the students' skillset and knowledge necessary for the design, implementation, analysis, completion, and presentation of a qualitative dissertation study. Foci for this course may include (but are not limited to): (auto)ethnography, content (theme) analysis, deconstruction, (counter) narrative, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, dialogic analysis, video and photo analysis, arts-based qualitative methods, phenomenological study, case study, participant and nonparticipant observation, and focus groups. Special attention will be paid to the process of analyzing data and discerning themes as they are revealed in the data. This course will further acclimate students to the language and practice of qualitative research and help them develop a critical posture capable of differentiating various ways of developing and executing qualitative research for the culmination of a written, visual, and oral presentation of a research proposal. By course's end, students should be confident in their ability to explain and justify the methodological decisions of their study.

EDL 696A – Topics in Educational Leadership

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.

EDP 541 – Statistical Methods in Education

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Descriptive, correlational, and inferential procedures for presenting and analyzing school and research data. For students in all fields.

ENGL 555 – Introduction to Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The course will provide a general overview of the TESL profession covering prominent theories, methodologies, and issues in the field. Coursework will cover the major methods, including Grammar-Translation, the Direct Method, Audiolingualism, and Communicative Language Teaching. In addition, issues of learner variables, motivation, and contexts of teaching and learning will also be addressed. Students will participate in mock lessons, tutoring sessions, and observations.

Graduate level requirements include a 12-15 page research paper with bibliography of at least eight sources.

ENGL 580 – Second Language Writing

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course provides an introduction to the teaching of second, foreign, or additional language (L2) writing in diverse contexts. Through readings, discussions, and activities, you will develop your understanding of the theory, research, and practice of L2 writing. We will explore a range of issues, including L2 writing development, culture and identity, pedagogical approaches, course design, feedback on student writing, and writing assessment. While we will work to develop familiarity with L2 writing research and theory and its inter-relations with L1 composition, the course will be grounded in practical and hands-on work with the goal of building your pedagogical knowledge as well as tools and strategies for working with second language writers across settings.

ENGL 589 – Internet Technologies in Second/Foreign Language Education

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course explores the theory, practice, and pedagogical application of the latest Internet and communication technologies in second/foreign language education, situated in view of the latest CALL (computer-assisted language learning), CMC (computer-mediated communication), SLA (second language acquisition and development), and applied/educational linguistics research. These technologies include, but are not limited to, synchronous and asynchronous chat, blogs, wikis and collaborative documents, audio (podcasting), video, virtual world/digital gaming, mobile/handheld computing, and social networking tools and sites.

ENGL 596O – Topics in Second Language Teaching

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.

ENGL 598 – Approaches to Teaching Writing

English 598 connects composition theory to praxis. Through a number of activities, we will think carefully about our inclinations, actions and reactions as teachers in the writing classroom. Required of all graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in their first year of teaching in the Writing Program, preceptorship provides a brief introduction to theory in writing studies and pedagogy as well as embedded support for classroom management. During the course, you will be asked to reflect on the teaching of first-year writing, and we encourage collaboration as we develop our teaching philosophies and approaches to first-year writing.

A major objective of 598 is to embed support within your first year of teaching. You will meet twice weekly with your Mentor, who will provide practical support for your teaching of English 101 and 102. These mentor sessions should be a safe space to reflect on and discuss your experiences with teaching.. It is in these sessions that you will respond to any immediate questions or concerns teaching English 101 and 102. One of the major tasks of mentor groups is arranging a mentor class visit.

FREN 561A – French Linguistics

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course will introduce the study of French from a linguistic point of view. The area to be covered will be chosen from: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialect and social variation, pragmatics, discourse analysis.

FREN 581 – Technology and Foreign Language Learning

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course focuses on the use of technology in foreign language learning. It has three parts: 1) theory, how computers fit within concepts of L2 acquisition; 2) pedagogy, how computers have been used in the classroom & 3) application, the design & implementation a segment of instruction.

GER 579 – Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This class is intended to prepare students to teach a second/foreign language. It will provide students with the essential foundations in language teaching methodology and theory, pedagogical grammar, curriculum and materials development, classroom management, and formal and informal assessment techniques. In addition, students will gain practical knowledge through video practicum components, which allow them to watch and reflect on actual classroom teaching. Students will complete this program with the pedagogical knowledge and practical understanding necessary to be confident and effective language teachers.

INFO 516 – Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) encompasses the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computing systems. This course will provide a survey of HCI theory and practice. The course will address the presentation of information and the design of interaction from a human-centered perspective, looking at relevant perceptive, cognitive, and social factors influencing in the design process. It will motivate practical design guidelines for information presentation through Gestalt theory and studies of consistency, memory, and interpretation. Technological concerns will be examined that include interaction styles, devices, constraints, affordances, and metaphors. Theories, principles and design guidelines will be surveyed for both classical and emerging interaction paradigms, with case studies from practical application scenarios. As a central theme, the course will promote the processes of usability engineering, introducing the concepts of participatory design, requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, iterative development, and user evaluation. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation strategies will be discussed. This course is co-convened: Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students are encouraged to enroll. Graduate students will be expected to complete more substantial projects and will be given more in-depth reading assignments.

INFO 521 – Introduction to Machine Learning

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Global Change (GC) · GIDP: Neuroscience (NRSC) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT) · GIDP: Statistics and Data Science (STATD)

Machine learning describes the development of algorithms which can modify their internal parameters (i.e., "learn") to recognize patterns and make decisions based on example data. These examples can be provided by a human, or they can be gathered automatically as part of the learning algorithm itself. This course will introduce the fundamentals of machine learning, will describe how to implement several practical methods for pattern recognition, feature selection, clustering, and decision making for reward maximization, and will provide a foundation for the development of new machine learning algorithms.

INFO 551 – Game Development

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course provides a comprehensive survey of video game production practices. Students work on game development assignments for presentation in a professional portfolio. The course topics include: collaborative technologies, software design patterns for games, spatial transformations, and technical considerations surrounding game art, such as authoring sprites, 3D models, animations, texture mapping, and writing shaders. Students will be given periodic assignments that reinforce lessons from class.

INFO 555 – Applied Natural Language Processing

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Most of the data available on the web or managed by institutions and businesses consists of unstructured text. Natural language processing tools help to organize such texts, extract relevant information from them, and automatize time-consuming processes. This course will teach the fundamental knowledge necessary to design and develop end-to-end natural language understanding applications, drawn from examples such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information extraction, automated inference, machine translation, chatbots, etc. We will use several natural language processing toolkits and libraries.

JPN 536 – Japanese Sociolinguistics

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Introduction to Japanese sociolinguistics: questionnaire studies, variation analysis, ethnography of communication, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and language and social interaction. Graduate-level requirements include a substantial term paper and may include extra readings and an additional weekly meeting when the class is convened with JPN 436.

LING 501 – Formal Foundations of Linguistics

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

A survey of the aims of linguistic research and introduction to the basic mathematics of formal linguistics; logic, sets, algebra, graphs, feature structures, formal language theory.

LING 503 – Foundations of Syntactic Theory

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Persian and Iranian Studies (PRIR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

An introduction to syntactic theory with an emphasis on data analysis, critical thinking, and theory development. Taught within the generative Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of problems.

LING 508 – Computational Techniques for Linguists

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Students are introduced to computer programming as it pertains to collecting and analyzing linguistic data. The particular programming language is chosen at the discretion of the instructor. Graduate-level requirements include more challenging exams; 50% greater contribution to their respective group projects; 9 instead of 6 assignment; additional readings from the primary literature.

LING 510 – Foundations of Phonological Theory I

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Investigation of the principles that underlie current phonological theory, concentrating on the representation of sounds and the regular patterns of sound in natural language. Topics include distinctive feature theory, syllable theory, the core skeleton, rule formulation and rule interactions. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of problems.

LING 515 – Phonological Phonetics

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Study of the acoustic and articulatory properties of sounds and patterns of sounds that occur in human language. Focus on the significance of the properties of sounds for phonological theory, in particular, distinctive feature theory. Role of psycho-acoustic studies as a source of evidence for phonological theory. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project or research paper.

LING 529 – Human Language Technology I

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This class serves as an introduction to human language technology (HLT), an emerging interdisciplinary field that encompasses most subdisciplines of linguistics, as well as computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics.
Content includes a combination of theoretical and applied topics such as (but not limited to) tokenization across languages, n-grams, word representations, basic probability theory, introductory programming, and version control.

LING 531 – Human Language Technology II

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Human Language Technology II
Course Description (no char. limit): This intermediate-level course is a continuation of LING 529 and covers a combination of theoretical and applied topics such as (but not limited to) unsupervised learning (clustering), decision trees, and the basics of information retrieval.

LING 532 – Psychology of Language

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Introduction to language processing. The psychological processes involved in the comprehension and production of sounds, words, and sentences. Other topics may include language breakdown and acquisition, brain and language, and bilingual processing. Graduate-level requirements include more extensive readings and writing.

LING 533 – Theories of Language Development

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course focuses on the major theories of language development, including nativism and various forms of learning. Students read and discuss primary source material written by linguists, psychologists, and other cognitive scientists who work in the field of language acquisition.

LING 538 – Computational Linguistics

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Fundamentals of formal language theory; syntactic and semantic processing; the place of world knowledge in natural language processing. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of assignments and a higher level of performance.

LING 578 – Speech Technology

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Topics include speech synthesis, speech recognition, and other speech technologies. This course gives students background for a career in the speech technology industry. Graduate students will do extra readings, extra assignments, and have an extra presentation. Their final project must constitute original work in a speech technology.

LING 595A – Linguistics

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research about Linguistics, Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Short research projects are required of participants.

LING 597A – Descriptive Linguistics for Native American Languages

GIDP: Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR) · GIDP: American Indian Studies (AIS)

Workshop includes methods and techniques on how to describe a language in the four basis sub-areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; terminology and general processes associated with the four sub-areas.

LING 696A – Topics in Syntax and Semantics

GIDP: Persian and Iranian Studies (PRIR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting examining in depth topics in syntactic and semantic theory. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.

MENA 530A – Language and Society in the Middle East

GIDP: Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Explores the social and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of Middle Eastern countries with the central goal of introducing students to the correlation between social and linguistic variables from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings and meeting with the instructor biweekly to discuss the readings of which written critiques will be submitted.

PSY 530 – Neural Basis of Language

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT) · NRSC - Neuroscience Graduate Program

The neural basis of language comprehension and production, with reference to its relationship to other perceptual, cognitive and motor skills.

PSY 596F – Cognitive Psychology

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Investigation of research and ideas on a specialized topic within cognitive psychology, including the psychology of language, visual perception and cognitive memory, decision, and learning. The discussion and exchange of scholarly information in a small group setting, papers and student presentations.

EDP 541 – Statistical Methods in Education

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Descriptive, correlational, and inferential procedures for presenting and analyzing school and research data. For students in all fields.

EDP 558 – Educational Tests and Measurements

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT) · GIDP: Statistics and Data Science (STATD)

Theoretical and practical application of psychometric techniques to test construction, analysis, and interpretation of test results.

INFO 555 – Applied Natural Language Processing

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Most of the data available on the web or managed by institutions and businesses consists of unstructured text. Natural language processing tools help to organize such texts, extract relevant information from them, and automatize time-consuming processes. This course will teach the fundamental knowledge necessary to design and develop end-to-end natural language understanding applications, drawn from examples such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information extraction, automated inference, machine translation, chatbots, etc. We will use several natural language processing toolkits and libraries.

LING 503 – Foundations of Syntactic Theory

GIDP: Cognitive Science (COGS) · GIDP: Persian and Iranian Studies (PRIR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

An introduction to syntactic theory with an emphasis on data analysis, critical thinking, and theory development. Taught within the generative Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of problems.

LING 508 – Computational Techniques for Linguists

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

Students are introduced to computer programming as it pertains to collecting and analyzing linguistic data. The particular programming language is chosen at the discretion of the instructor. Graduate-level requirements include more challenging exams; 50% greater contribution to their respective group projects; 9 instead of 6 assignment; additional readings from the primary literature.

LING 521 – Language Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization

GIDP: Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course examines potential ways to avert the massive language endangerment and death the world is experiencing. A variety of approaches and methods are considered, including linguistic documentation, teaching language courses, immersion (pre)schools, and the master-apprentice program. The course also covers ethical issues, goals of communities, and the balance between linguists and communities. Graduate-level requirements include 2 additional writing assignments, additional readings, and a longer (25 page) research paper.

LING 545A – Structures of Non-Western Languages

GIDP: American Indian Studies (AIS) · GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

In-depth linguistic analysis of selected phonological, syntactic, and semantic problems in a non-Western language, concentrating on native languages of the Southwest area. Graduate-level requirements include a higher level of performance.