Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct meaningful and grammatically correct sentences appropriate to course level in writing and in speech.
2. Understand the general idea of a reading text or passage, be able to guess the meaning of new words based on context and use of a dictionary.
3. Translate learned texts and level-appropriate sentences from Arabic to English and vice versa.
4. Produce correct pronunciation in speech, be more comfortable in conversational settings and express ideas effectively about daily life's topics.
5. Be familiar with basic structures of formal and colloquial Arabic, and be able to use each according to its own setting.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire familiarity with a range of historical forces, agents and contexts that contributed in different ways to the unfolding of fascism.
2. Connect the historical, cultural, and sociopolitical material to the crisis of fascism (1918-1945), as well as to ongoing dilemmas in liberal governance.
3. Organize, question, and defend the philosophical, social, historical, and political concepts expressed and debated within the work.
4. Develop their oral skills in classroom discussion and presentations and develop their writing skills through short and long exercises and essays.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe historical and cultural knowledge of various Indigenous groups in Canada.
2. Apply elements of Indigenous ways of knowing to holistic learning in a supportive and intentional learning environment.
3. Recognize Indigenous connections to the land and all of creation.
4. Explore the diverse contributions of Indigenous people(s) in the academy on important contemporary issues.
5. Engage in deep and sustained self-directed, inquiry-based learning.
6. Develop appropriate strategies for engagement, solidarity, and allyship.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use basic grammatical features in a variety of simple situations.
2. Write using the language’s own orthography (writing system, letters, etc.).
3. Accurately produce sounds and sound combinations in the Indigenous language.
4. Communicate in everyday situations at the beginning level.
5. Describe the connections between language and culture using examples from both.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use basic grammatical features and vocabulary in a variety of simple situations.
2. Communicate in a limited number of situations at the beginning level.
3. Identify issues facing the community and examine various approaches taken in response.
4. Examine socio-political factors impacting Indigenous language use in North America.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify topics or fields of research with relevance to the student’s ongoing scholastic and professional development in Indigenous Studies.
2. Critically examine a topic or field of research to increase knowledge in a specific area.
3. Assess research with a critical Indigenous lens for its relevance and relationship to contemporary discourses relevant and important to Indigenous peoples, communities, and nations.
4. Integrate new learning with existing knowledge to deepen understanding of specific issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critical discussion of the concept of ‘culture’ and how it relates to other important terms and ideas (like language, race, nation, or ethnicity).
2. Ability to reflect on how your own cultural context and experiences shape your expectations and daily life.
3. Understand some of the ways that structures of politics and economics affect relations among cultures and cultural groups.
4. Improve on academic skills including time management, communication with peers, and reading different types of texts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Reflect on the meaning and importance of culture as a tool of self-understanding
2. Have a solid understanding of the social, cultural, and political events that have shaped the cultures of a country or region.
3. Be familiar with important artistic movements and with the work of key creators.
4. Have acquired the necessary cultural sensitivity and awareness to contribute to productive and respective transcultural exchanges.
5. Developed the critical skills necessary to fully appreciate and understand the creative endeavours and struggles of people living in a specific country or region.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize basic Arabic traditions and etiquettes in their social and cultural context.
2. Construct meaningful and logical arguments and explore new conceptual ideas.
3. Examine and reflect on the sisterhood of all cultures and traditions and the appreciation of their uniqueness and/or similarities.
4. Build on research and exploration to develop cultural recognition and positive dialogue.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the historical and cultural relevance of music in Latin America.
2. Acquire critical and in-depth reading and listening skills to recognize important musical styles and movements from different regions of Latin America.
3. Identify influential Latin American musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
4. Assess the ways in which music influences our identities.
5. Develop cultural sensitivity to a great variety of musical traditions and social practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Reflect on the meaning and importance of culture as a tool of self-understanding.
2. Have a solid understanding of the social, cultural, and political events that have shaped Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the present.
3. Be familiar with important artistic movements and with the work of key Latin American creators.
4. Have acquired the necessary cultural sensitivity and awareness to contribute to productive and respectful transcultural exchanges.
5. Developed the critical skills necessary to fully appreciate and understand the creative endeavours and struggles of Latin American people.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify major theoretical frameworks for studying multilingualism as a social practice.
2. Analyze examples of multilingualism from varied contexts (face-to-face interactions, music, mass media) to comment on issues in culture and communication.
3. Participate critically in debates about multilingualism and understand their implications for larger social issues like group identity, power, race.
4. Evaluate studies of multilingualism and communicate about them orally for an academic audience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire familiarity with a range of historical forces, agents, and contexts that contributed in different ways to the unfolding of fascism.
2. Connect the historical, cultural, and sociopolitical material to the crisis of fascism (1918-1945), as well as to ongoing dilemmas in liberal governance.
3. Organize, question, and defend the philosophical, social, historical, and political concepts expressed and debated within the work.
4. Develop oral skills in classroom discussion and presentations and develop writing skills through short and long exercises and essays.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically discuss the relationship between language and society in different parts of the world.
2. Evaluate different methodologies for studying cultural aspects of communication and different styles of representing events of communication.
3. Apply a range of key concepts in the study of culture and communication.
4. Design a proposal for a feasible research project that incorporates the components of ethnographic research.
5. Provide and respond to constructive peer review.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe the theme of environmental ethics and storied relationships in different works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, artists, and activists engaging with changing environments, landscapes, or territories.
2. Articulate and engage with the ways in which theoretical reflections and layers of knowledge can emerge through film, literature, and other forms of creative expression in relation to changing environments and colonial pressures.
3. Using film analysis and close reading methodologies, interpret and analyze specific creative works in relation to past, present, and future ways of envisioning and conceptualizing the complex interactions between humans and all other living entities.
4. Reflect on the land and place they inhabit in light of the works studied, and position themselves in relation to Indigenous peoples and the environment in order to better assess one’s individual and collective ethics and responsibilities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe patterns involving words, sentences, and meaning in human languages, using standard linguistic terminology.
2. Analyze data sets involving words, sentences, and meaning by applying the tools of generative linguistics.
3. Compare similar linguistic phenomena across different languages.
4. Relate linguistic phenomena involving words, sentences, or meaning to questions relating to language variation, and social aspects of language use.
5. Identify predictions made by a particular structural analysis of language, and evaluate those predictions against further data.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe patterns of data in language using standard linguistic terminology.
2. Analyze patterns of data (morphological, syntactic, and phonological) by applying the tools and theory introduced in class.
3. Compare similar linguistic phenomena across different languages.
4. Relate the description and analysis of a language to questions relating to language change, language acquisition, and social aspects of language use.
5. Identify predictions made by a particular linguistic analysis, and evaluate those predictions against further data.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how children learn first languages.
2. Describe how children and adults learn second languages.
3. Describe common language impairments.
4. Read and present critically a research paper in the field.
5. Analyze language data from first and second language learners.
6. Understand the difference between acquiring and learning a language.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Read and transcribe English in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and be familiar with reading and transcribing other languages in IPA.
2. Record, transcribe and acoustically analyze speech.
3. Classify and transcribe speech according to its articulatory features.
4. Use Audacity and Praat software.
5. Understand basic acoustic phonetics, including reading simple spectrograms.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand phonological concepts and terminology when reading phonological descriptions.
2. Analyze novel data sets to identify patterns.
3. Express analyses using formal tools of phonological analysis (features, rules, etc.).
4. Critically evaluate competing analyses of phonological data.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply basic descriptive terminology in morphology.
2. Identify morphemes and morphological patterns in novel linguistic data (in English and other languages).
3. Describe in writing a set of data or specific morphological analysis.
4. Identify and describe in writing the relevance of a particular morphological pattern for mor- phological theories (including either the morphology-phonology or morphology-syntax inter- face).
5. Explain differences between various theoretical approaches within morphology.
6. Conduct descriptive fieldwork on morphological topics.
7. Read current articles on topics relating to morphology, in future linguistics classes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a good understanding of syntax as a field of study.
2. Explain and apply concepts and tools of analysis in each of the topic areas covered.
3. Identify and describe a variety of syntactic phenomena in novel linguistic data sets, using appropriate terminology.
4. Critically read and evaluate syntactic analysis and argumentation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically explain the concepts of language endangerment, loss, revitalization, and reclamation.
2. Discuss the implications of language loss for Indigenous and minority communities.
3. Describe and evaluate different strategies that linguists, educators, policy makers, and others can use to support language revitalization/reclamation.
4. Using examples from contexts of language loss and revitalization, discuss the socially situated nature of language, including the roles of multilingualism, verbal art and practice, language teaching and socialization, and technology.
5. Critically discuss and reflect on academic articles and other material with peers.
6. Conduct independent research on topics related to language loss/revitalization.