Credit Hours - 2

The goal of this course is to help students expand their vocabulary. It looks at the structure of English words with classical roots. It examines some of the common roots and the morphological rules that determine the combination of such roots, and rules of meaning change. Students are also introduced to the history of the English language.

Credit Hours - 3

The main purpose of this course is to make students aware of how the study of language can be done in a rigorous scientific manner and the application of linguistic knowledge to different aspects of human endeavors such as language learning and teaching, human communication, and many more. Some of the topics to be discussed are, the nature of language, the origins of human language, the sounds of language (phonetics) the structure of words (morphology), the structure of sentences (syntax), the study of meaning (semantics), language and the brain and others.