EBA: 300-level EBA Core Course or Rhetoric Requirement or English Elective. PW: Advanced Rhetoric or Writing/Rhetoric Course. CW: English Elective. TWC: Theory/ Specialization Course. This course seeks to develop an understanding of what language can do socially and communicatively. Language plays a significant and complex role in our lives. We commonly use language to perform actions, to accomplish things like asserting, persuading, telling stories, expressing individual identities and social affiliations by choosing among various ways of talking. Thus, in using language, we also organize ourselves socially. By studying how language is used to organize human life we can understand what culture means. In this sense, language and culture are inseparable, and one cannot be studied without the other. This course will engage students with the multiple concepts of linguistic practice to explore the connections between human language and human life through readings, lectures, and discussions.
