INT 201 Introduction to World Languages

This course is an examination of the nature and origins of language, the main language groupings of the world, and the development of writing systems. Language groups from Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Polynesia, the Pacific, and Australia, as well as the Americas will be studied. Attention will be paid to the role of languages in the 20th and 21st centuries and the future of languages. The goal is to prepare students to become positive citizens in our complex world by applying in their respective careers the knowledge of language and its role in history and today’s society.

3 credit hours