| Learning Goal |
Course-Relevant Skills |
Career-Relevant Skills |
Resume Wording/
Translation to Careers
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| Develop appreciation of general properties of language |
- Understand the systematicity of language
- Understand how language can spread geographically; how languages change over time
- Recognize common cross-linguistic patterns; language universals
- Understand scientific importance of all languages/dialects
- Recognize properties of signed as well as spoken languages
- Understanding the potential effects of social factors
- Understand the value of describing language as a formal system
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- Analyzing & investigating
- Creativity
- Generate & apply new ideas & solutions
- Identify the impact of social diversity
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- Gather information systematically to establish facts & principles.
- Problem solving
- Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities & proactive in putting forward ideas & solutions
- Able to plan activities & carry them through effectively
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| Develop competence in linguistic analysis |
- The analysis of sound, word, and sentence structures of individual languages
- The modelling language as a formal system
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- Using computational skills and digital analysis tools
- Analyzing & investigating
- Creativity
- Generate & apply new ideas & solutions
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- Computing skills
- Evaluate options based on logic & fact & present solutions
- Ability to obtain and process information
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| Learn ways to study language in a scientific manner |
- Gathering data and making observations
- Hypothesis formation and testing
- Making predictions about possible vs. impossible patterns
- Empirical advantages of working with large amounts of data
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- Analyzing & investigating
- Creativity
- Generate & apply new ideas & solutions
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- Ability to analyze quantitative data
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| Improve general academic skills |
- Writing skills
- Reasoning skills
- Ability to focus on/pinpoint a problem
- Library research
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- Written Communication
- Planning & organizing
- Time management
- Teamwork
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- Able to express ideas clearly and confidently in speech and writing
- Manage time effectively, prioritizing tasks and able to work to deadlines
- Work confidently within a group
- Ability to obtain and process information.
- Ability to create and/or edit written reports
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