Education 790D - Intro/Systemc Functnl Linguist

This course provides graduate students with an introduction to Halliday?s theory of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The course is designed for students with an interest in critical discourse analysis, literacy development, composition studies, multilingual education, curriculum studies, political discourse, social justice education, communication, and linguistic anthropology. It supports participants in learning to use SFL tools to analyze samples of classroom discourse, interview data, textbooks, policy documents, political discourse, and literature for the purposes of research and/or curriculum design.