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.

Weekend #1 (Jan. 11-13):

Intro to Course(s) 435W-535.

During this weekend, we will cover all of the Unit I materials. Students will then have the next month to answer Forum questions and begin work on these assignments:

Discussion of Field Research Project and Journal Article Review Assignments.

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)

Unit IB/IC:

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

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)

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)

Unit IH

Individual Bilingualism
Group Multilingualism

Unit Ii:

BICS/CALP and Beyond!

Unit IJ:

Society and Language Policy

Prior to Weekend #2:

Jan.-Feb.: Post Forum Responses to Chapters Dr. Schmidt Presented in Weekend #1.

Propose Topic for Field Research Project by Feb. 15.

Post Draft of Journal Article Reviewe by Feb. 22.

Journal Article Review Due Mar. 1.

Prepare Field Research Presentation.

Continue to Work on Forums from Previous Weeks.

Propose Forum Question for Your Project by Apr. 15.

Weekend #2 (Apr. 13 or Apr. 14):

Field Research Presentations.

AFTER Weekend #2:

(1) Submit the Reflective Forum Question for your Field Research Presentation by Apr. 15.
(2) All Forum posts due by Apr. 29.
(3) Submit final draft of Field Research Paper by Apr. 29.