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Apr 03, 2026
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ENGL 451 - Language in the U.S.A.
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
Explores U.S. language diversity through rhetorical and sociolinguistic perspectives. Students analyze dialects, code-switching, Indigenous languages, multilingual communities, and language ideologies, examining intersections with identity and power while building skills in social science analysis, critical reading, research, writing, and communication.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Apply sociolinguistic and rhetorical concepts/methods to describe and analyze features of the U.S. language situation.
- Critically examine how power, race, gender, class, and other identities shape language practices and social norms.
- Develop media literacy skills by evaluating public and scholarly sources engaging diversity of language in the US (e.g., Wikipedia, media, research studies).
- Conduct original social science inquiry (survey, interview, or discourse analysis) and communicate findings through writing and multimodal projects.
- Exhibit nonjudgmental, respectful, and evidence-based attitudes toward U.S. language variation.
- Develop academic writing, research, and communication skills able to engage diverse and public-facing audiences.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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