An introductory course on phonetics and phonology by covering the physical nature of sounds (i.e., physics of sounds, production, and transmission) and systems of sounds that bear meaningful linguistic units.
The course gives an introduction to semantics, which focuses on meaning in language, by covering such topics as reference, sense, relationship between meaning and thought, and sentence relations and truth.
This course provides the students with an introduction to linguistic anthropology, the study of language use in social and cultural contexts.