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UGRC 134 — Understanding Human Societies/Language in Society

University-Wide Required Courses (UGRC) · University of Ghana

This module is aimed at giving students a basic understanding of what language is and how it works in every human society. The course will help students to appreciate how language is used as a tool for doing things in the world. It shows how the study of language is at the intersection of the humanities and the social and natural sciences and how linguists conduct the business of studying language. Some of the topics to be covered are: the nature and functions of language, the language situation in Ghana, language, power and gender, as well as levels of linguistic analysis.

Credits
3
Level
Level 100

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Course details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).