ANTH 103The Nature of Language
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1975–76 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A general introduction to the scientific study of language. Lectures on the nature of human language as compared with animal communication, some of the basic methods of historical and descriptive linguistics, and the importance of language in culture and society.
As printed in the 1975–76 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 1 thread mention ANTH 103, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2017
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u/UWCourseLinker: “… - Human and Cultural Evolution ANTH 102 - Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology ANTH 103 - The Nature of Language ANTH 201 - Introduction to Archaeology ANTH 202 - Social and Cultural Anthropology ANTH 203 - The Archaeology of North America ANTH 204 - Biological …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1975–76 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1975–76 to 1994–95 20 calendars
A general introduction to the scientific study of language. Lectures on the nature of human language as compared with animal communication, some of the basic methods of historical and descriptive linguistics, and the importance of language in culture and society.
- 1975–76 PDF p. 457
- 1976–77 PDF p. 398
- 1977–78 PDF p. 216
- 1978–79 PDF p. 217
- 1979–80 PDF p. 228
- 1980–81 PDF p. 241
- 1981–82 PDF p. 251
- 1982–83 PDF p. 260
- 1983–84 PDF p. 278
- 1984–85 PDF p. 280
- 1985–86 PDF p. 288
- 1986–87 PDF p. 292
- 1987–88 PDF p. 302
- 1988–89 PDF p. 299
- 1989–90 PDF p. 316
- 1990–91 PDF p. 318
- 1991–92* PDF p. 326
- 1992–93* PDF p. 323
- 1993–94* PDF p. 325
- 1994–95* PDF p. 327
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.