Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

School

Lang & Comp Cultural Stus

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Delivery mode

Internal

Class hours

4 Contact hours

Prerequisite

LING1000, LING1005 and #4 advanced courses from the Linguistics major list

Assessment methods

Continuous assessment, final project

Course enquiries

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

Course description

This course introduces students to the recording and documentation of a spoken language initially unknown to the students, through working with a speaker. It will involve archival research, language analysis and description, archiving of recorded language in a range of formats and a consideration of ethical issues relating to language documentation. This course may be cancelled if there are fewer than 20 enrolments.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile