HISTORY
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
English 451.001 - Duncan - Fall 2008
TENTATIVE COURSE SYLLABUS
| Sep. 2 | Registration and Introduction | |
| Sep. 4 | Chapter 1 | |
| Sep. 9 | Chapter 2 & Phonemic Transcription | |
| Sep. 11 | Phonemic Transcription | |
| Sep. 16 | Phonemic Transcription | |
| Sep. 18 | Morphology | |
| Sep. 23 | New Words and Semantic Change | |
| Sep. 25 | Review | |
| Sep. 30 | FIRST TEST (29%) | |
| Oct. 2 | No Class - Instructor at Conference | |
| Oct. 7 | The Mother Tongue (video) | |
| Oct. 9 | Indo-European Languages | |
| Oct. 14 | Germanic Languages | |
| Oct. 16 | Old English | |
| Oct. 21 | Old English | |
| Oct. 23 | Old and Middle English | |
| Oct. 28 | Middle English | |
| Oct. 30 | Middle English | |
| Nov. 4 | SECOND TEST (29%) | |
| Nov. 6 | Early Modern English | Nov. 10 - Registration begins for Spring '09 |
| Nov. 11 | Early Modern English | Nov. 12 - Last day to drop with W |
| Nov. 13 | History of English Orthography | |
| Nov. 18 | American Tongues (video) | |
| Nov. 20 | Dialectology | |
| Nov. 25 | Black on White (video) | |
| Nov. 27 | No Class - Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 2 | Black English - AAVE - Ebonics | |
| Dec. 4 | Slang | |
| Dec. 9 | The Future of English | |
| Dec. 17 | THIRD TEST (29%) Wednesday, 12:30-2:30pm |
Daily Grade = 13%