Simple random sampling and stratified random sampling, ratio and regression estimators, cluster sampling, systemic sampling, and multistage sampling. Specific problems associated with running a survey: non-response, call-backs, questionnaire construction, mail questionnaires, and area sampling. Lecture, three hours per week; laboratory, two hours per week for seven and a half weeks. Offered the first or second half of each semester.

Theory and data analysis involving likelihood functions, mixed models, missing responses.

This course aims to help students acquire skills and knowledge needed to promote understanding of individuals/groups from diverse backgrounds, without reinforcing stereotypes in the name of "cultural difference." Toward this end, this course will (1) utilize, as a guide/lead, the concept of "contact zones," zones of exchange that divide but simultaneously connect "us" and "them"; and (2) have each student conduct a semester-long ethnographic project concerning the contact zone.

This course is an introduction to linguistic anthropology. The course reviews the basic principles of linguistic analysis and examines the ways in which linguistic structures interact with and reflect cultural variation.

This course is an advanced survey of current areas of research in sociolinguistics. Topics include dialectology, language variation and change, ineractional sociolinguistics, language and gender, bilingualism, and language contact.

This course studies the historical development of language through time and space, examining the internal mechanisms and external influences involved in language change. Change will be examined at all levels: orthographic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical. The course will also to investigate a variety of topics related to the phenomenon of language change; language classification; comparative linguistics; the reconstruction of linguistic systems; the social context of language change.

This course is an introduction to linguistic anthropology. The course reviews the basic principles of linguistic analysis and examines the ways in which linguistic structures interact with and reflect cultural variation.

This course is an advanced survey of current areas of research in sociolinguistics. Topics include dialectology, language variation and change, ineractional sociolinguistics, language and gender, bilingualism, and language contact.

This course is a topics course in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film and Culture. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and MA level graduate students. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits under different subtopic.

An inquiry-based, experimental course which may be used toward fulfillment of the arts and creativity requirement in the UK Core curriculum. All proposals must demonstrate that the course provides an environment for substantive,meaningful inquiry and must be approved by the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education.