units
ATS2665
Faculty of Arts
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Organisational Unit | Linguistics |
Offered | Not offered in 2014 |
Coordinator(s) | Dr Simon Musgrave |
Notes
Previously coded LIN2030
This unit introduces students to the key issues in language endangerment. It examines historical and contemporary assessments of linguistic diversity and language endangerment within the broader framework of the loss of biological and cultural diversity. It reflects on a wide range of issues, including factors in assessing speaker fluency and the degree of endangerment, symptoms and causes of language shift, and changes in domains of language use and patterns of language transmission. General principles and issues are embedded within case studies from a range of regions and language families. The seminar combines lectures with group discussion of key concepts guided by focus questions.
On completion of this unit students should have:
Students should be able to:
They should also be able to:
Research essay proposal 500 words 15%
Research essay 3000 words 45%
Take home test 1 hour 30%
Group/Online participation 10%
One 2-hour lecture per week