EURA104-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

European Languages in Europe and Beyond

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

This is a one semester course for students undertaking a first year course in European languages or European studies, and is open to all undergraduates irrespective of their discipline. It covers a range of topics relating to the languages of Europe: how they developed and spread as a group of languages, as isolates, or the way in which (inter) national languages of Europe developed. The course also looks at the place languages take in the European Union, and how the construction of Europe insists on protecting language diversity. No knowledge of languages other than English is needed to take this course.

This one semester course is open for everyone irrespective of their discipline.  It covers a range of topics relating to the languages of Europe.  

The first term is focusing on linguistic structure: how are languages of Europe similar to or different from each other, linguistically? How do we compare languages to judge their similarities and differences objectively? How are the languages of Europe related? How do the linguistic history bear on the status of official languages and the support of minority languages?

The second term focuses on the intersection between linguistic and social issues including identity formation. Languages of Europe are considered on regional, national and supranational levels. What does language diversity mean for the peoples of Europe? How do different organisations and institutions (including the European Union) deal with the multilingual Europe and protection of language diversity?

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, students will have developed:
  • A preliminary grasp of the history and development of Romance, Germanic, Slavic languages and some linguistic isolates.
  • Basic knowledge of key concepts and vocabulary for the understanding of European languages such as linguistic families, linguistic isolates, language planning, standardisation, linguistic diversity.
  • A basic awareness of European languages, European national languages and linguistic diversity in the context of the EU.
  • Sound writing skills in both formulation and expression of an argument.

Restrictions

LING104, EULC104, EURO104

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinators

Natalia Chaban and Viktoria Papp

Lecturers

Natalia Chaban and Kevin Watson

Textbooks / Resources

There is no single textbook for this course. The collection of selected readings will be available on LEARN or provided during lectures.

Course links

LEARN The full Course Outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $732.00

International fee $2,975.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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