LIN 150.6 — Language, Race, and Ethnicity
This course combines Language, Race, and Ethnicity (LIN 150) and Intensive Writing (ESL 95). This course explores historical, cultural, and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between language, race, and ethnicity in the United States and its territories. It examines how language is understood to reflect, reproduce, and/or challenge and defy racial and ethnic boundaries, and howideas about race and ethnicity influence the ways in which people use and construe language. It covers topics such as racialization and racism, ethnicization, notions of authenticity, repertoire, codeswitching and style shifting, linguistic mocking and linguistic racism, language ideology, and identity formation. This course will examine language varieties such as Black American English and its cross-racial uses by other groups, Chicano English and Spanglish, Asian American English,Hawaiian English, and American Indian English.This is an accelerated course that combines credit-bearing and developmental content. Passing LIN 150.6 meets the writing proficiency milestone requirement; students who pass LIN 150.6 are exempt from further ESL courses. LIN 150.6 may not be taken by students who have passed LIN 150 or ESL 95 or are exempt from writing.