Online Linguistics

 

The Department of Linguistics is currently developing an educational project to convert large general education courses in Linguistics to an online format, with all lecture material, media clips, discussions, homework problems, and exams offered online. Three courses are part of the project for now:

• LIN 101 Human Language - Ready to pilot
• LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words - Already offered fully online
• LIN 200 Language in the United States - Already offered fully online

 

LIN 101 Human Language

Names from left: William Oliver, Sarah Cucinello, Mark Aronoff, Kateryna Dykun, Cayla Rosenhagen.

Coming Soon: An Asynchronous Online Linguistics 101 Course.

This course will match the content, rigor, and skill-building of the in-person linguistics 101 course but in the online modality. The course aims to:

1.  actively engage students in the types of practices that actual linguists do,
2. develop students’ abilities to become independent learners and problem solvers, and
3. be “robot-proof,” requiring advanced critical-thinking and creative skills that cannot be replicated by AI tools like ChatGPT.

Topics covered include the staples of a linguistics 101 like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics along with sign language, language acquisition, writing systems, computational linguistics, and careers in linguistics.

We will be piloting the course in Spring 2025!

 

LIN 200 Language in the United States

With hundreds of students every academic year, LIN 200 is currently offered in a fully online asynchronous format. Instead of traditional lectures, LIN 200 divides the material into short videos featuring experts in the field introducing each topic. Discussion boards allow for asynchronous interaction between students and for the opportunity to engage in regular writing activities. This course was recently featured in SBU News: https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/language-in-the-usa-course-bridges-gap-to-current-events/

Project Documents:

• Flipping the classroom in a large Linguistics course Talk presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (New Orleans, LA, January 3, 2020)
• We don’t need no classroom to do Linguistics! Talk presented at the Teaching & Learning Colloquium at Stony Brook University (March 8, 2019)
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