This advanced course in linguistics assumes the student has either taken "Linguistics for Grades 9-12" or "Linguistics from Sounds, Morphemes, and Syntax to Brains, Context, and Conversation" (or an equivalent course elsewhere). We begin each session with a learning objective, short presentation, and guided work on a linguistics problem from areas such as articulatory phonetics, phonological processes in human language, syllable structure and phonotactic constraints, the internal structure of words, word-formation processes, morphological analysis of a language, phrase structure rules, word order patterns cross-linguistically, semantic theory, how writing as human technology evolved historically, the classification of writing systems, and how language changes over historical time. Though some prior knowledge is assumed for the course in general, effort will be made to assess where students are and to lead them to expand their knowledge in each session, so varied experiences are welcome.

The schedule for the classes are as follows:

Week 1 A Native American phonology and morphology analysis
First we will learn some history and context of the linguistic community and a little about the prominent features of the language. Then we will complete a phonology problem and a morphology problem in the language.

Week 2 Jamaican Creole
First we will learn some history and context of the linguistic community and a little about the prominent features of the language.
Then, we will work on a problem from morphology and syntax.

Week 3 Spanish
First we will learn some history and context of the linguistic community and a little about the prominent features of the language.
Then, we will work on problems from syntax, semantics, and if time, discourse analysis.