- Applied Linguistics -

 This course investigates how the architecture of language reflects (and may be determined by) the architecture of the human mind. That inquiry cuts across a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence research. Participants in the course will read sources from those areas and in addition conduct and share individual research projects in fields of their interest, such as aphasiology, child development, forensic linguistics, animal communication research, etc. We will base our readings on a working understanding of the grammar of English, which will require a compressed review of it. The course counts towards the minor in Cognitive Science and also satisfies the Applied Linguistics requirement for majors of English.