Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Linguistics
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-173114 LING 107-1 Language & Landscape: Water is Life Spring 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 PM 145 PM Todd Union Room 202 01/17/2024 05/11/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Water is on track to be the most pressing environmental issue in the upcoming decades. But beyond its physical substance, what is water? How do we understand its value in our lives? Who controls it? This course will focus on the language and landscape of water, its geography and physical presence on the landscape, to examine how languages shape our actions, understanding and knowledge of what water is in human communities. In the course we’ll examine indigenous points of view around water in the Americas and in Australia and how they embody themselves in their landscapes in relation to water. We’ll examine the language of issues such as access to water, and water rights and the concept of ownership of water. We’ll focus on case studies of current communities coping with the value and role of water in their communities. We’ll touch on aspects of the geography of water: aquifers, rivers, water sources, and practices such as irrigation and mapping to understand the ways that languages embody us in place, using as tools linguistic concepts such place names and toponyms, spacial orientations. The goal of the seminar is to build a base for an informed understanding of how knowledge is coded in languages, and shapes concepts and environmental practices.The course will consist of readings, films and discussion, and final project.
Offered: Fall
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-178849 LING 107-1 Language & Landscape: Water is Life Fall 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 200 PM 315 PM Lattimore Room 513 08/26/2024 12/18/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Water is on track to be the most pressing environmental issue in the upcoming decades. But beyond its physical substance, what is water? How do we understand its value in our lives? Who controls it? This course will focus on the language and landscape of water, its geography and physical presence on the landscape, to examine how languages shape our actions, understanding and knowledge of what water is in human communities. In the course we’ll examine indigenous points of view around water in the Americas and in Australia and how they embody themselves in their landscapes in relation to water. We’ll examine the language of issues such as access to water, and water rights and the concept of ownership of water. We’ll focus on case studies of current communities coping with the value and role of water in their communities. We’ll touch on aspects of the geography of water: aquifers, rivers, water sources, and practices such as irrigation and mapping to understand the ways that languages embody us in place, using as tools linguistic concepts such place names and toponyms, spacial orientations. The goal of the seminar is to build a base for an informed understanding of how knowledge is coded in languages, and shapes concepts and environmental practices.The course will consist of readings, films and discussion, and final project.
Offered: Fall
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-155846 LING 107-1 Language & Landscape: Water is Life Fall 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 200 PM 315 PM Hutchison Hall Room 473 08/30/2023 12/22/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Water is on track to be the most pressing environmental issue in the upcoming decades. But beyond its physical substance, what is water? How do we understand its value in our lives? Who controls it? This course will focus on the language and landscape of water, its geography and physical presence on the landscape, to examine how languages shape our actions, understanding and knowledge of what water is in human communities. In the course we’ll examine indigenous points of view around water in the Americas and in Australia and how they embody themselves in their landscapes in relation to water. We’ll examine the language of issues such as access to water, and water rights and the concept of ownership of water. We’ll focus on case studies of current communities coping with the value and role of water in their communities. We’ll touch on aspects of the geography of water: aquifers, rivers, water sources, and practices such as irrigation and mapping to understand the ways that languages embody us in place, using as tools linguistic concepts such place names and toponyms, spacial orientations. The goal of the seminar is to build a base for an informed understanding of how knowledge is coded in languages, and shapes concepts and environmental practices.The course will consist of readings, films and discussion, and final project.
Offered: Fall
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-140792 LING 107-1 Language & Landscape: Water is Life Fall 2022 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 200 PM 315 PM Morey Room 525 08/31/2022 12/22/2022
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Description: Water is on track to be the most pressing environmental issue in the upcoming decades. But beyond its physical substance, what is water? How do we understand its value in our lives? Who controls it? This course will focus on the language and landscape of water, its geography and physical presence on the landscape, to examine how languages shape our actions, understanding and knowledge of what water is in human communities. In the course we’ll examine indigenous points of view around water in the Americas and in Australia and how they embody themselves in their landscapes in relation to water. We’ll examine the language of issues such as access to water, and water rights and the concept of ownership of water. We’ll focus on case studies of current communities coping with the value and role of water in their communities. We’ll touch on aspects of the geography of water: aquifers, rivers, water sources, and practices such as irrigation and mapping to understand the ways that languages embody us in place, using as tools linguistic concepts such place names and toponyms, spacial orientations. The goal of the seminar is to build a base for an informed understanding of how knowledge is coded in languages, and shapes concepts and environmental practices.The course will consist of readings, films and discussion, and final project.
Offered: Fall