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Making Meaning

Using Social Media

Foundations of Language

Making History: Communicating the Past

Imagining Language

Mobile Storytelling

What is language? Where did it come from, how do we learn it, and what do we use it for? This subject introduces students to a range of basic topics in the study of language: how to define language, the basic structure of language, language in the brain, how to distinguish languages from dialects, how language might have evolved, how children and adults acquire language, how and why languages change, and how language conveys social and cultural meaning, and different modalities of language (speech and sign).This is a level 1 subject and includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

In this subject you will be introduced to the essential building blocks of language: the sounds and sound systems (phonetics and phonology), how words and sentences are structured (morphology and syntax)and how we understand meaning (semantics). Employing the analytical tools of linguistics, you will begin applying them to the development of a new language of your own imagining. The inspiration will come from a range of human languages, including major world languages, minoritized and endangered languages, and constructed languages.This is a level 1 subject and includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

This subject focuses on how people understand communication through language. In particular, it explores how words, sentences, utterances and texts are used make meaning or do something in a certain context. A range of theoretical approaches and analytical tools used in the study of semantics and pragmatics will be introduced and applied.This is a level 2 subject. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Social media platforms are an integral part of news and media. In Using Social Media, you will learn how to use different social media platforms to both create and share media content. The subject explores how to use social media to research and report original stories, including how to identify and verify sources, and how to tell stories in live formats. You will also learn how to analysis social media strategy and develop a strategy for social media content dissemination, including how to determine an audience, and create engaging content specifically for social media, such as text, graphics and images. As well as key skills, this subject delivers key knowledge on misinformation and disinformation in social media, and legal and ethical implications, including defamation, privacy and copyright.This is a level 2 subject. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

This subject examines the speech sounds of world&#39;s languages, including variation and change in the sounds. You will learn how to describe and analyse language sounds, and will work with a speaker to document their language. The subject is practical in focus with significant application of theory to data.  Topics covered include consonants, vowels, tones, stress, and phonological typology.This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

The Sounds of the World's Languages

How is the past made into history? In this subject, you will use digital media to communicate the past. You will make history, researching a topic, event, place or artefact of your choice. Your challenge is to communicate this history via a media form (video, podcast, online essay or museum display) in an engaging way to the public. You will gain practical experience in media communication, independent research, critical thinking and ethics. As you engage with historical debates and media, you will challenge traditional ideas and practices and develop skills in understanding how the past becomes history and in communication. You will go from being the student studying other histories, to being the historian making your own history and communicating it to a public audience. You will gain experience in historical writing, producing a video or recording a podcast. This is a level 3 subject. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Mobile Storytelling introduces students to a new mobile content creation medium. Smartphone tools and literacies enable them to create and publish cross-platform broadcast-quality video stories. Using their smartphone as their new digital pen, students develop, research, write, shoot, edit and publish user-generated stories (UGS). These skills are indispensable in the convergent ecosphere currently driving content production online across platforms and sectors. Moreover, we explore the impact of smart technologies on global connectivity and discuss their value as change agents for promoting civic-minded ideals and a sustainable democratic public sphere. The skills define an emerging field of hand-held communication with both eudemonic and commercial imperatives.This is a level 2 subject.  Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling.  This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

The world&#39;s extraordinary linguistic diversity is under threat, and the sustainability of the many smaller languages of the world is an urgent issue. In this subject we examine the diversity of human language and the extent of diversity in syntactic structures. Deeper knowledge of the complex interactions expressed by linguistic diversity will assist you to understand the challenges facing the sustainability of our existing linguistic diversity. You will learn the skills needed to describe the syntactic structures of languages and thus help contribute to sustaining linguistic diversity.This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Syntactic Diversity in a Connected World

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