Course Schedule

Course Schedule
Week 1: Jan. 20
*snow day*

Week 2: Jan. 27
Introductions. Course design & goals. Language Journal.
Readings: Crystal, 290-293 ; Leguin “She Unnames Them”; Locke Chapter 3

Week 3: Feb. 3
Language origins and the “stroke economy.”
Readings: Crystal, 1-15, 408-418

Week 4: Feb. 10 * no class
Readings: Crystal, 81-122;

Week 5: Feb. 17
Levels of Language.
Readings: Crystal, 123-131; Bryson “Becoming Americans”

Week 6: Feb. 24
Dialect, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
Readings: Crystal, 179-183; Tannen, “Oral/Literate Continuum”

Week 7: Mar. 3
Quiz, take home. Due March 3.
Readings: Crystal, 229-257; Russel “A Grammar For Storytelling” ; Spring Break

Week 8: Mar. 17
Readings: Tannen, Chapters 1-2; Chafe, “Integration & Involvement”; Sutton-Smith, “Folkstories of Children.”

Week 9: Mar. 24
Readings: Bauman, 1-32; Tannen, Chapter 3

Week 10: Mar. 31
Readings: Bauman, 33-53; Tannen, Chapter 4

Week 11: April 7
Readings: Bauman, 54-77

Week 12: April 14
Readings: Bauman, 78-115
Readings: Propp, 17-65

Week 13: April 21
Readings: Propp, 66-117

Week 14: April 28 (Final Class)