An in-depth investigation of topics in the fields of theoretical and/or applied linguistics with emphasis on a particular country/region/linguistic population, language or language group. Possible topics include: history of a language or language group; sociolinguistics of a language or language group(s); structure of a language or language group; phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics or discourse analysis of a language and/or its dialects; acquisition of pragmatic, cultural and/or communicative competence in a language. MCL majors and graduate students will be expected to conduct part of their research in the target language. May be repeated up to six credits with different subtitles.