Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences

School

Languages & Cultures School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

3 Contact hours

Prerequisite

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

Assessment methods

Participation, presentation and article review, field notes, project report

Course enquiries

Dr Greg Dickson

Study Abroad

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

This course is not currently offered, please contact the school.

Course description

Not offered in 2013 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