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
Other courses on this programme
- UGRC 131 — Understanding Human Societies/Culture and Development
- UGRC 132 — Understanding Human Societies/Religion and Societies
- UGRC 133 — Understanding Human Societies/Economy and Business
- UGRC 135 — Understanding Human Societies/Human Behaviour and the Social
- UGRC 136 — Understanding Human Societies/Governance in the Information society
- UGRC 141 — Science and Technology in our Lives/Everyday Physics
- UGRC 142 — Animals as Friends of Humans
- UGRC 143 — Science and Technology in our Lives/Earth Resources
- UGRC 144 — Science and Technology in our Lives/Geohazards
- UGRC 145 — Science and Technology in our lives/Food and Nutrition in Everyday life
- UGRC 146 — Science and Technology in our lives/Chemistry and Life
- UGRC 160 — Introduction to Literature
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).