Splash Biography



BRANDON SHORT, ESP Teacher



Major: linguistics & philosophy

College/Employer: BC

Year of Graduation: 2014

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Past Classes

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R700: What's Linguistics? in Splash Fall 2012 (Nov. 04, 2012)
What is lengua, язы́к, वाच्, 語言, język, language? The Daily Beast includes political science, English Language, history, and anthropology on its list of the "13 most useless college majors;" but it doesn't include Linguistics. What is linguistics? Why does linguistics matter? How can studying linguistics (casually or at a university) help you get ahead in "the real world"? In this class we'll start by defining the science of linguistics, go on to touch on some interesting points of the science ("pop-linguistics"), then end with a discussion of the questions "does linguistics matter?"