IDS2291
Language Birth, Language Death
3 Credit Hours
Summer 2027
Valencia, Spain
Humanities and Cultural Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing), Scholarship in Practice
Valencia Broad Curriculum Summer 1
Course Description
This course explores how languages are born, the ways and reasons why they change, and the limits of language learning and teaching. This course also examines the factors leading to language loss and language death, the reasons why we, as global citizens, should care, and how language specialists and activists attempt to bring dying languages back to life. Includes selections from the Western canon.
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