Teaching
Courses
LING 102: Intro to the Study of Language
Instructor of Record - Spring 2022, Summer 2023
Teaching Assistant - Fall 2021
This course provides students an initial opportunity to examine language from an analytical and scientific point of view. Students will learn that there are many misconceptions about language, its development, structure and use. As the course progresses students reevaluate their own conceptions about language as they learn how it is integrated within cognition, culture, history, and society. Linguistics 102 is a writing-intensive (WI) course for which students receive WI credit upon successful completion of the course requirements. This course is offered in both a traditional lecture format and through the Unit Mastery program.
LING 150C: Language in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
Instructor of Record - Fall 2023, Spring 2024
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This course is an introduction to the languages of Hawai‘i and the wider Pacific region. The topics covered include principles of historical language change, sound systems, grammar, the social use of language, language and education, language maintenance and revitalization, language contact and shift, pidgins and creoles, and language endangerment and documentation. LING 150C is a writing-intensive (WI) course for which students receive WI credit upon successful completion of the course requirements. The course additionally satisfies the general education requirement for Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Issues (H/HAPS).