This course is intended to enhance first-year students' potential for success in college. This course will provide students the opportunity to learn about academic strategies, network with other TLC community members and staff, and become familiar with UNO resources and programs.
Prerequisite(s): Thompson Learning Community members only. Freshman only or permission. Not open to non-degree graduate students.
The course analyzes the intersection between languages and reality, i.e., how the coexistence of languages informs our daily experience, self-perception, and perception of others. We will explore the many assumptions and beliefs about the value of different languages and variants within them, and that of their speakers. We will look at examples of how linguistic groups in the US represent themselves and show the complexity and richness of their culture through visual and audio representations of language, through a variety of media-social media, film, music, and written narratives-while investigating when and how linguistic communities have formed and disappeared in the United States and their cultures of origin, thus placing U.S. linguistic diversity in a global context. (Cross-listed with WLL 1000, FREN 1010, GERM 1010, SPAN 1010).
Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course and MavEd Cultural Knowledge and Humanities and Fine Arts General Education course
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