Builds on the concepts and tools introduced in PM I and focuses specifically on project design and proposal writing. Introduces the variety of requirements expected by donors as well as the different formats for proposal writing. Will culminate in students designing a project and writing a full proposal for a donor. Prerequisite: IDVP 391.

Students work at a local non-governmental organization (NGO), typically beginning the summer between their second and third years and continuing in a cross-cultural setting with the same NGO in the winter semester of their third year. A minimum of 96 hours at the NGO must be completed. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours in IDVP. Permission required.

Focuses on operations and logistics, specifically in humanitarian assistance. Provides an overview of what is humanitarian assistance, who the various actors are, the sectors in disaster response, and the issues related to implementing humanitarian programs. The second part of the course focuses on field operations for development and humanitarian projects. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours in IDVP. Exclusion: IDVP 331.

Examines a wide variety of issues central to the politics of foreign aid. Examines the various actors, dynamics, theories, and challenges that constitute the foreign aid regime. Also explores how the various forms of foreign aid shape development outcomes in the Global South for better or for worse. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours in IDVP.

Students complete a major research project in international development that demonstrates their ability to formulate a research question, use existing theories and methodologies, gather research data, conduct an analysis with both quantitative and qualitative methods and formulate conclusions. Only offered to students in their final year of an honours program in International Development. Application required.

An introduction to university education, and to the place and purpose of academic work in the life of the thoughtful Christian student. In addition to providing an introduction to a biblical worldview, the course will explore such topics as strategies for academic success, preparation for scholarly work, and the integration of faith and learning.

By focusing on the whole learner, this course equips students with the tools they will need to achieve success in a university setting. Through an integrative approach to study skills, mental health, and personal formation, students are given the chance to identify areas that require further development. Topics include study strategies, on-line learning, critical reading and writing, goal-setting, stress management, motivation, and formation. Through lectures, workshops, and assignments, students will learn practical strategies to improve their academic performance, while also exploring how personal growth impacts university and vocational success. Permission required. Exclusion: LANG 110.

An interdisciplinary upper-level course that explores academic disciplines and culture from an explicitly Christian perspective. Offered only to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business Administration fourth-year students.

Introduction to core “technical” areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax. Interplay of linguistics with the related disciplines of psychology, neurology, sociology and literature. Additional topics covered include: animal communication, language and culture, and how languages change over time. Understanding of how human languages are structured in the mind, how language develops in children, and how language is used in human communities. Exposure to data and analysis of languages from around the world.

Continuation of LING 101. This half of the course explores the interface between linguistics and related disciplines such as history, psychology, neurology, and sociology. Prerequisite: LING 101.

Introduction to the broad range of human speech sounds used in languages of the world. Students receive training and practice in recognizing, describing and producing speech sounds from a variety of languages, and transcribing them with phonetic symbols. Focuses on the articulatory bases of speech production, but some discussion of the acoustic properties of speech sounds is also provided.

Provides an introduction to the theory and practice of analyzing sound systems in spoken languages. Opportunity to apply the principles of phonological analysis to data from a wide variety of natural languages. Application of phonological analysis to issues of orthography development. Prerequisite: LING 201.

Introduces theoretical concepts and analytical principles pertaining to the study of words and word-stems (morphology), and phrases and sentences (syntax) in human language. Problem solving with data from a variety of languages is a major part of the course.

Introduction to language as a context-dependent social phenomenon. Students examine how various contexts and social factors, such as age, gender, social class, status, setting and topic, influence linguistic choices, with special attention to multilingual societies. Other topics include language attitudes, the maintenance, shift or loss of languages, language and technology and language in education. Same as SOCI 272.

Practical introduction to language and culture learning for linguists, missionaries and professionals who find themselves in areas where no formal language instruction is available. Students learn foundational principles of language acquisition and are exposed to a diverse range of language learning methodologies. Students exercise these methodologies in regular sessions where they meet with a speaker of a non-European language. Students learn how to plan their own language learning, tailoring strategies to their individual learning styles. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in LING.

Builds upon LING 203 by exploring recent developments and current issues in phonological theory. Attention is given to the interplay between theory and analysis. Experience extending theoretical models to new data, and develop constructive critical thinking in light of problems encountered. Prerequisite: LING 203.

Explores the rich variety of morphological and syntactic constructions and processes found in human language, deepening the students’ understanding of morphosyntactic phenomena from a typological perspective. The topics are examined within the framework of a current theory of Syntax. Prerequisite: LING 204.

Same as PSYC 380.

Being able to gather and organize data, form hypotheses and work ethically with human subjects in research are essential professional skills for any linguistic researcher. Work with speakers from a non-European language community to transcribe utterances, build a rudimentary dictionary and gather data for phonological and grammatical analysis. Involves learning some special computer tools for the creation of lexical databases, and the gathering and organizing of language data. Prerequisites: LING 201, 203, 204, 211.

Analysis of structures and meaning beyond the sentence to how information is organized in texts. Consideration of text genres and the study of concepts such as topic, focus, foregrounding, new and old information, etc. Exploration of techniques of narrative text discourse analysis in various languages of the world. Prerequisites: LING 201, 203, 204.

Introduces students to the study of language change. It considers how and why languages change over time. Attention is given to the comparative method and principles of internal reconstruction, which are used to reconstruct earlier states of language and to classify languages into families based on historical relations. Students will gain experience applying these methods to data from a diverse range of languages and language families. Prerequisites: LING 201, 203, 204, 211.

Provides students with the theoretical tools with which to study meaning at the word and sentence levels, and to explain how people interpret utterances in context. Students will study various models of semantics and pragmatics, and learn how to apply different approaches to the study of meaning in natural language. Prerequisite: LING 204.

Designed to give the student the theoretical basis and practical skills for the transfer of meaning from one language to another. Topics will include semantic analysis of source language and receptor language, and problems encountered in cross-language transfer, with particular attention to the translation of Scripture. Prerequisites: LING 101, 102, 204; BSTH 201. Pre- or corequisite: LING 471.

Covers methods used in the introduction of literacy to ethno-linguistic minority groups. It includes orthography design, consideration of socio-historical issues, strategies for literacy programs, stimulation of local authorship, reading theory, and instructional methodologies. Prerequisites: LING 201, 203. Same as EDUC 551.