An introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of standard Arabic - the language common to the Arab world. Classroom activities will promote speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Special attention will be paid to reading and writing in the Arabic script.

This is an intensive elementary course for students with minimal to no knowledge of the featured language. Students will learn the script and sound system so they may begin to read and write in this language. The course will develop listening and speaking skills through culturally-based materials, which will be enhanced by audio-visual and computer-based activities. Students may not repeat this course for credit, including when the current featured language is different from previous featured languages.

Introductory Anishinaabemowin I is a beginner’s course that aims to introduce students to the Anishinaabemowin language. Anishinaabemowin is classified as a severely endangered language by UNESCO and is the second most widely spoken First Nations language in Canada. Learners will be equipped with basic skills to understand conjugation patterns, memorize the 500 most used words, master the beginnings of sentence structure through usage of spaced repetition software.

This course will develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Standard Chinese. Writing tasks will help students to progress from characters to compositions and will include translation from Chinese to English and vice versa. The course is not open to students who have more than the rudiments of Chinese.

A continuation of LGGB60H3.

This course will further improve the literacy skills of heritage students by studying more linguistically sophisticated and topically extensive texts. Those who have not studied pinyin, the Mandarin pronunciation tool, but know about 600-800 complex or simplified Chinese characters should take this course instead of courses LGGA64H3 and LGGA65H3.

A continuation of LGGB62H3.

Develops language and literacy through the study of Hindi cinema, music and dance along with an introduction to theatrical and storytelling traditions. The course enhances acquisition of cultural competence in Hindi with composition and conversation, complemented by culture-based material, film and other media.

Continuation of LGGB70H3.

Tamil language taught through culture for students with heritage language skills or prior formal study. The cultures of South India, Sri Lanka and diaspora populations will be studied to build literacy skills in the Tamil script as well as further development of speaking and listening skills.

This course develops all language skills in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation, with special attention to idiomatic expressions. Through a variety of texts and interactive materials, students will be introduced to aspects of Chinese life and culture.

A continuation of LGGC60H3.

This course focuses on similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures through a variety of cultural and literary materials. Students will further develop their language skills and cultural awareness through reading, writing, and translation.

This course focuses on aspects of Canadian and Chinese societies, and related regions overseas. Through a variety of text and non-text materials, in Chinese with English translation and in English with Chinese translation, students will further improve their language skills and have a better understanding of Canada, China, and beyond.

Intended for students who read Chinese and English well. Complex-simplified character conversion and vice versa, as well as English-Chinese and Chinese-English bilingual texts, are emphasized through reading, discussion, and translation in a variety of topics from, and outside of, Greater China, presentations, translation comparison, translation, and translation criticism.

Designed for students who read Chinese and English well. Complex-simplified Chinese character conversion and vice versa, as well as English-Chinese and Chinese-English bilingual texts are emphasized through reading, discussion, and translation in a variety of topics from global perspectives, presentations, translation and translation comparison, and translation criticism.

Advanced language learning through an introduction to the historical development of the Hindi language. Students develop language skills through the study of educational structure, and literary and cultural institutions in colonial and postcolonial India. The course studies a variety of texts and media and integrates composition and conversation.

This course examines Chinese literary masterpieces of the pre-modern era and their English translations. They include the prose and poetry of many dynasties as well as examples in Literary Chinese of other genres that are still very much alive in Chinese language and society today. An in-depth review of the English translations will be strongly emphasized.

This course examines Chinese classics and their English translations, such as The Book of Documents, The Analects of Confucius, The Mencius, The Dao De Jing, and other philosophical maxims, proverbial sayings, rhyming couplets, idioms and poems that still have an impact on Chinese language and culture today.

An introduction to the various methods and theories of analyzing speech sounds, words, sentences and meanings, both in particular languages and language in general.

Application of the concepts and methods acquired in LINA01H3 to the study of, and research into, language history and language change; the acquisition of languages; language disorders; the psychology of language; language and in the brain; and the sociology of language.

Practice in analysis of sound patterns in a broad variety of languages.

Practice in analysis of sentence structure in a broad variety of languages.

An examination of physiological and acoustic bases of speech.

Core issues in morphological theory, including properties of the lexicon and combinatorial principles, governing word formation as they apply to French and English words.

Description and analysis of the structure of English, including the sentence and word structure systems, with emphasis on those distinctive and characteristic features most of interest to teachers and students of the language.

The course will provide an introduction to the use of computer theory and methods to advance the understanding of computational aspects of linguistics. It will provide basic training in computer programming techniques employed in linguistics such as corpus mining, modifying speech stimuli, experimental testing, and data analysis.

The study of the relationship between language and society. Topics include: how language reflects and constructs aspects of social identity such as age, gender, socioeconomic class and ethnicity; ways in which social context affects speakers' use of language; and social factors which cause the spread or death of languages.

An introduction to experimental design and statistical analysis for linguists. Topics include both univariate and multivariate approaches to data analysis for acoustic phonetics, speech perception, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language disorders, and sociolinguistics.

This course provides students a practical, hands-on introduction to programming, with a focus on analyzing natural language text as quantitative data. This course will be taught in Python and is meant for students with no prior programming background. We will cover the basics of Python, and students will gain familiarity with existing tools and packages, along with algorithmic thinking skills such as abstraction and decomposition.