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Jul 15, 2025
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COMM 4620 - Language and Culture
This course examines the role that language plays in the production of social identities and cultural assumptions about the world. Course topics include: language and worldview; linguistic contact and change, language ideology and nationalism, religious language, “politically correct” speech, and the key role that language plays in structuring race, gender and class-based systems of social inequality. Guest lectures from the Languages faculty.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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