Classical Languages: This course will cover didactic applications of Near Eastern Languages that have contributed to the English Language Vocabulary. Language families represented include Afro-Asiatic Languages (Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Semitic Languages) as well as Indo-European Languages (Latin and Greek).
Corpus Linguistics: This course will cover didactic principles of corpus (text) linguistics. Topics include how to build an electronic corpus of student work, how to build a word list of most frequent words used in student samples, and how compare students' work to reference corpora of millions of words.