SURVEY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES

AMERIND/LINGUIS 371

Course Description

Overview of native languages of North America, including topics such as history, distribution, diversity, government policy, language endangerment, elaboration of cultural domains, language and worldview, speech styles, language structure (phonology, morphology, grammatical categories), performance (narrative, song), writing systems.

Prerequisties

Sophomore standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Offered

Occasionally

Grade Point Average

3.94

7.46% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

3.56% from Historical

A Rate

88.24%

28.85% from Historical

Class Size

-36.68% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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