2024 Fall

ISF 100C 001 - LEC 001

Language and Identity

Fang Xu

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024

Mo, We, Fr

01:00 pm - 01:59 pm

Social Sciences Building 166

Class #:25452

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 65

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 65

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

2 reserved for Interdisciplinary Studies Majors

1 reserved for Undeclared Undergraduate Students

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.

This course examines the role of language in the construction of social identities, and how language is tied to various forms of symbolic power at the national and international levels.? Drawing on case studies from Southeast Asia, Europe, Canada, and the U.S., we will pay special attention to topics such as the legitimization of a national language, the political use of language in nation-building processes, the endangerment of indigenous languages, and processes of linguistic subordination and domination. This course will be interdisciplinary in its attempt to understand language in terms of history, politics, anthropology and sociology.