Tentative Schedule
(Subject to Change As Necessary)

Prior to or During Week #1:

Assignments:

MyHeritage and Elluminate Orientation.

Complete Check-In Tasks and Check-In Test in Unit I.

Week #1 (Sept. 8):

Intro to Course(s) 435W-535.

Discussion of Field Research Project and Journal Article ReviewAssignments.

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit IA:

History of Sociolinguistics (See chapter outlines in Handouts)
Introduction to Sociolinguistics (See H&W, Chap. 1)

Week #2 (Sept. 21 or 22):

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit IB/IC:

Ethnography (See supplemental text "SL" Chapter 3 in Handouts and H&W pp. 394-405)

Week #3 (Oct. 5 or 6): All assignments past here will be updated soon.

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit ID:

Intro to Pragmatics

Language and Gender (Read H&W Chaps. 12 and SL Chap. 11/outline in Handouts)

Unit IE:

Politeness, Compliments, and Other Interactional or Functional Elements of Language (Read H&W Chap. 11 and SL Chap. 10 in Handouts)

Week #4 (Oct. 13):

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit IF:

Narrative Analysis and Discourse Analysis (Read H&W Chap. 14 and SL Chapter 5 in Handouts)

Unit IG:

Language Variation: Vernacular, Standard, Lingua Franca, Pidgin, Creole. (Read H&W Chap. 4)

Other Variants (Read H&W Chap. 7)

After Week #4:

Post Forum Responses to Chapters Dr. Schmidt Presented in Weeks #1-4.

Propose Topic for Field Research Project by Oct. 21.

Journal Article Review Due Oct. 28.

Week #5 (Oct. 26 or 27)

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit IH

Individual Bilingualism
Group Multilingualism

Week #6 (Nov. 3):

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit Ii:

BICS/CALP and Beyond!

Week #7 (Nov. 16 or 17):

Discussion and Overview of the Following by Dr. Schmidt:

Unit IJ:

Society and Language Policy

Prior to Week #8:

Prepare Field Research Presentation.

Continue to Work on Forums from Previous Weeks.

Propose Forum Question for Your Project by Nov. 23.

Week #8 (Nov. 30th or Dec. 1):

Field Research Presentations.

AFTER Week #8:

(1) All Forum posts due by Dec. 7.
(2) Submit final draft of Field Research Paper by Dec. 7.