The course explores the use and analysis of quantitative data in empirical linguistic research using the statistical software package R. The covered techniques include descriptive and inferential statistics, ANOVA, and regression.

This course introduces students to the field of discourse analysis and investigates a variety of styles and registers from the conversational to the literary and from the journalistic to the academic.

This course is forward-looking to disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries, to Kafkaesque, postmodern anxieties and alienation, links between terror and technology, arbitrary legal systems and abuses of power in literature, film, and popular culture.
Three hours; one term

In this Experiential Learning course, students learn hands-on skills either by working on a research project (e.g., running experiments, conducting fieldwork, reviewing literature) or on a pedagogical project with a focus on Indigenous language revitalization. Students can collaborate on a faculty member’s research project or propose a project to be supervised by a faculty member or jointly by an Indigenous community leader and a faculty member.