This course provides students an opportunity to conduct research into a theoretical area of linguistics and its application to assist in creating a plan for future study and professional development. Students will select a topic of interest and research its current and potential applications to one or various areas of industry. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how key linguistic theories have allowed for progress within certain industries and identify opportunities that are still present in the field of applied linguistics. Prerequisites: LNG 101 or 321 and successful completion of the General Education Capstone course.

This course surveys British literature from the Romantic, Victorian, modern, and postmodern periods. Students analyze works of different genres within their historical, socio-political, economic, philosophical, and religious contexts and examine how writers respond to the themes and issues central to British society and identity over historical time.

This Introductory course presents concepts, theories, and research in sociology. Intersections of identity and privilege are considered alongside relationships and the social construction of race, class, gender, and other forms of identity. Group organization and collective action are also presented in the course to explain human behavior and social change.

This course surveys British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the mid-18th century. Students examine the historical, political, philosophical, and religious influences on the development of British literature and consider how authors use the conventions of different genres to express the themes and concerns central to their age.

This course provides an introduction to the domains of internet linguistics, including natural language processing, computational linguistics, and human language technology. Students will study basic elements of computer programming from a computational linguistics perspective, and assess how the theories, methods, and materials of internet linguistics can be applied to real-world language problems. In a final portfolio, students will develop, analyze, and interpret computational work on a corpus of text, utilizing online visualization and natural language processing tools. Computational linguistics is an exciting subfield within the discipline of linguistics that investigates the potential of language technology for society and the practical applications of these emerging technologies. Prerequisite: LNG 101 or 321.

This course provides an introduction to the theory of meaning in language. Students will consider how language relates to the physical world, and how it contains and conveys truth, falsehood, and meaning. Students will also consider how various contexts factor into determining meaning, and will study selected applications of these theories. Prerequisite: LNG 101 or 321.

This course provides an introduction to language in its social context. In this course, students will explore how language embodies culture, and how society is impacted by language. Topics include linguistic variation in diverse social contexts; language and gender; language and ethnicity; language and socioeconomic class; and the language of law, politics, propaganda, and advertising. 

A study of real-time and distributed-processing computer networks including telecommunications, data transmission techniques (protocols), design, and implementation considerations. Prerequisite: INF 231 or permission of the instructor.

How does language function in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society? What are the ways of analyzing language that can reveal these processes? How can people become more conscious of power structures, and more able to resist and change them? The relationship between language and power remains an important issue in the twenty-first century, but substantial social changes in the past decade have altered the nature of unequal power relations, and therefore the agenda for the critical study of language. This course provides an introduction to the analysis of discourse and dialogue. It brings the discussion fully up-todate by addressing the globalization of power relations and the influence of the internet and new technologies on the language of contemporary institutions and ideologies.

This hands-on, virtual lab-based course introduces students to fundamentals of database management systems, techniques for the design of databases, and principles of database administration. Database management concepts, practices, and emerging trends are evaluated. In lab sessions, students will demonstrate the ability to build databases using enterprise DBMS products such as Oracle or SQL Server. Prerequisites: INF 231 and fulfillment of the Quantitative Reasoning core competency.