Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4A · CSU GE Area D1DescriptionThis introductory course serves as a foundation for understanding language from an anthropological perspective. The course addresses such core questions as how, what, when, where, why and with whom we communicate. This course surveys such core areas in linguistics--structural linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as the bio-cultural basis of language; historical linguistics: origins and evolution/change, dialects, and language families; and sociocultural linguistics: language acquisition in cultural context, and it emphasizes the relationship between language and culture, and issues of language conservation and loss. 