Exploring term Fall 2023 Change
- ACAN: Arts of Canada
- ADMN: Public Administration
- AE: Art Education
- AGEI: Ageing
- AHVS: Art History and Visual Studies
- ANTH: Anthropology
- ART: Visual Arts
- ARTS: Arts
- ASL: American Sign Language
- ASTR: Astronomy
- ATWP: Academic and Technical Writing Program
- BCMB: Biochemistry and Microbiology
- BIOC: Biochemistry
- BIOL: Biology
- BME: Biomedical Engineering
- CE: Community Engagement
- CHEM: Chemistry
- CIVE: Civil Engineering
- COM: Commerce
- CS: Canadian Studies
- CSC: Computer Science
- CW: Creative Writing (En'owkin Centre)
- CYC: Child and Youth Care
- DHUM: Digital Humanities
- DSST: Disability Studies (DSS)
- ECE: Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECON: Economics
- ED-D: Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
- ED-P: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDCI: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDUC: Education
- ENGR: Engineering
- ENSH: English
- ENT: Entrepreneurship
- EOS: Earth and Ocean Sciences
- EPHE: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- ER: Environmental Restoration
- ES: Environmental Studies
- EUS: European Studies
- FA: Fine Arts
- FRAN: French and Francophone Studies
- GDS: Global Development Studies
- GEOG: Geography
- GMST: Germanic Studies
- GNDR: Gender Studies
- GREE: Greek
- GRS: Greek and Roman Studies
- HDCC: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- HINF: Health Information Science
- HLTH: Health
- HS: Health and Society
- HSD: Human and Social Development
- HSTR: History
- HUMA: Humanities
- IB: International Business
- ICDG: Indigenous Community Development and Governance
- IED: Indigenous Education
- IGOV: Indigenous Governance
- INGH: Indigenous Health Studies
- INTS: International Health Studies
- IS: Indigenous Studies
- ISP: Intercultural Studies and Practice
- ITAL: Italian
- LAS: Latin American Studies
- LATI: Latin
- LAW: Law
- LING: Linguistics
- MATH: Mathematics
- MDIA: Media Studies
- MECH: Mechanical Engineering
- MEDI: Medieval Studies
- MEDS: Medical Science
- MICR: Microbiology
- MRNE: Marine Science
- MUS: Music
- NURS: Nursing
- PAAS: Pacific and Asian Studies
- PHIL: Philosophy
- PHYS: Physics
- POLI: Political Science
- PORT: Portuguese
- PSYC: Psychology
- RCS: Religion, Culture and Society
- SCIE: Science
- SENG: Software Engineering
- SJS: Social Justice Studies
- SLST: Slavic Studies
- SMGT: Service Management
- SOCI: Sociology
- SOCW: Social Work
- SOSC: Social Science
- SPAN: Spanish
- STAT: Statistics
- TCA: Transformative Climate Action
- THEA: Theatre
- TS: Technology and Society
- VIRS: Visiting International Research Studies
- VKUR: Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award
- WRIT: Writing
- LING100A: Foundations in Linguistics I
- LING100B: Foundations in Linguistics II
- LING110: Language and Thought
- LING156: Self-Directed Immersive Language Learning I
- LING157: Supporting Indigenous Language Learning
- LING158: Indigenous Language Mentorship I
- LING159: Indigenous Language I
- LING180A: Dynamics of Indigenous Language Shift
- LING180B: Issues, Principles and Best Practices in Language Revitalization
- LING181: Introductory Linguistics for Language Revitalization
- LING182: Language Learning, Language Revitalization and Social Action
- LING183A: Documentation and Recording for Indigenous Language Reclamation
- LING183B: Advanced Methods for Indigenous Language Documentation
- LING184: Indigenous Language Materials Development
- LING186: Language in Indigenous Culture
- LING187: Special Topics in Language Revitalization
- LING200: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
- LING203: Introduction to Morphology and Syntax
- LING204: Developing Research Skills in Linguistics
- LING231: Constructed Languages
- LING256: Self-Directed Immersive Language Learning II
- LING258: Indigenous Language Mentorship II
- LING259: Indigenous Language II
- LING261: Introduction to Chinese Language and Linguistics
- LING270: The Evolution of Language
- LING272: Introduction to Indigenous Languages of British Columbia
- LING274: How to Learn a Language
- LING290: Encoding Language in Writing
- LING295: The Social Side of English Grammar
- LING297: Introduction to Selected Topics in Linguistics
- LING301: Topics in the Structure of an Indigenous Language Family
- LING309: Morphology
- LING311: Syntax
- LING312: Phonology
- LING325: Lexical Semantics
- LING326: Meaning in Language
- LING338: Second Language Phonology
- LING345: Sign Language as Language
- LING356: Self-Directed Immersive Language Learning III
- LING358: Indigenous Language Mentorship III
- LING359: Indigenous Language III
- LING370A: Psycholinguistics
- LING370B: Child Language Acquisition
- LING370C: Topics in Psycholinguistics
- LING370D: Neurolinguistics
- LING372: Indigenous Languages of British Columbia
- LING373: Second Language Acquisition
- LING374: Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
- LING377: Global Contexts of Language
- LING379: Language and Land
- LING380: Acoustic and Perceptual Phonetics
- LING381: Physiology of Speech Production
- LING387: Task-based Second Language Instruction
- LING388: How English Grammar Works
- LING395: Language and Society
- LING396: Sociolinguistic Issues in Japanese
- LING397: Issues in Cross-Cultural Communication
- LING398: Language, Gender and Sexuality
- LING411: Advanced Syntactic Analysis
- LING412: Advanced Phonological Analysis
- LING420: Historical and Comparative Linguistics
- LING431: Community-based Initiatives in Language Revitalization
- LING449: Directed Readings in Linguistics
- LING450: Seminar in Languages
- LING456: Self-Directed Immersive Language Learning IV
- LING458: Indigenous Language Mentorship IV
- LING459: Indigenous Language IV
- LING461: Linguistic Field Methods
- LING473: Advanced Topics in Second Language Acquisition
- LING474: Assessment and Testing for Instructional Purposes
- LING475: Current Issues in Applied Linguistics
- LING476: Seminar and Practicum in Applied Linguistics
- LING486: Experimental Phonetics
- LING495: Language Variation and Change
- LING497: Advanced Topics in Linguistics
- LING499: Honours Thesis
LING270
The Evolution of Language
Explores how language evolved in the human species but not in others. Topics include whether language emerged gradually or suddenly, what its evolutionary precursors might be and what kinds of selective pressures have made language adaptive.
Lecture: 3h
Lab: 0h
Tutorial: 0h
Credits: 1.5