Course Catalog 2011-2012
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Course Catalog 2011-2012

KIE-3446 Introduction to General Linguistics, 3 cr

Additional information

CEF level: C1. The course is particularly recommended to those doing languages as a minor subject. NB: When a course is over-subscribed, i.e. there are more sign-ups than places on the course, then we enrol the required number of students according to the number of 'study points' they have. Students have to be present on the first day of the course to be sure of retaining their place.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures

 

 
 4 h/week
+4 h/week

 
KIE-3446 2011-01 Friday 10 - 12, K2117A
Wednesday 12 - 14, K2119A

Requirements

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student will have an overall understanding of what human language is and how it can be described at different levels of analysis. The student will be familiar with the most central terms and methods of linguistics, and will be able to apply some of these in the analysis of language samples. He or she will be able to comment on and discuss some everyday linguistic phenomena, and explore and present a language-related topic to others in English.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. I. Linguistics & the nature of human languages  Language families  History of linguistics 
2. II. The description of linguistic structures: sounds and sound patterns (phonetics & phonology), words and their components (morphology), and sentence structures (syntax)   The articulatory system   Forensic phonetics 
3. III. Linguistic meaning and language use in context (semantics & pragmatics)   Corpus linguistics  Psycholinguistics 
4. IV. Language, culture & society (sociolinguistics & dialectology)   Language evolution and change; anthropological linguistics   

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Lecture slides                English  
Other literature   Textbook extracts              Suomi  
Other online content   Articles, web resources         Available in Moodle      Suomi  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
KIE-3200 English for Engineers Mandatory   1
KIE-3210 English Language Exam Mandatory   1

1 . One of these courses must be completed.

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
KIE-3446 2011-01 Group 1: Wed 12-14, Fri 10-12        

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