Course offerings in Sociolinguistics As with all fields, students specializing in sociolinguistics will receive a well-rounded education in the core subjects of linguistics during their first two years here. One of the required areas is socio- or cognitive linguistics, which can be filled by one of the courses in in our 250 Series, of which one or two are offered each year: 250A/B/C/D/E. SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS. (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in Linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation, Language Contact, Language and Gender, Conversation/Discourse Analysis, Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15-25 page research paper. A student may also take as many of the 250 courses as s/he wishes, as electives. There are also several other courses in sociolinguistics that are offered occasionally in the 290 series. We also offer a number of undergraduate courses in sociolinguistics, which graduate students are welcome to take: Linguistics 51 The Politics of Languages (Lakoff) Linguistics 52 Languages and You (Lakoff) Linguistics 55 The American Languages (Hinton, Lakoff, Moore) Linguistics 123 Pragmatics (Lakoff) Linguistics 124 Discourse (Lakoff) Linguistics C139 Language Spread (Johanna Nichols and Richard Rhodes) Linguistics 150 Sociolinguistics (Hinton, Lakoff) Linguistics 151 Language and Gender (Lakoff) Linguistics 152 Pidgin and Creole Languages Students specializing in sociolinguistics will also find other courses of interest around the campus. We also offer independent study courses (Linguistics 298 or 299) where students can work individually or in small groups with a professor on readings or a research project.