Academic Team:
Keli Yerian (yerian@uoregon.edu)
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor
Alexa Rose (arose7@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant
10 credits
UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
MCK 152: M 4 - 4:50 PM
CRN: 15057
LING 144 How to Learn Language - 4 credits
Lecture
HED 220: TR 10 - 11:20 AM
CRN: 12918
Discussion
AGH 100: F 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 12919
First or Second Year Language Course - 5 credits
About the FIG:
Are you planning to take a language class this year? This Speak to the World FIG is about how to enjoy and get the most out of learning another language. During the term we will explore both general principles and individual differences in language learning, and how these apply to your own experiences as you learn a language. We’ll discuss what language, communication, and culture-in-interaction mean, experiment with using specific language learning strategies, and develop metacognitive skills that will apply not only to language learning but learning and life in general (both personal and professional).
Throughout the course you will have the opportunity to support and learn from each other in your language-learning journeys. You will explore how languages relate to your own personal or community history, how they play a role in your present experiences at UO, and how they might impact your future goals, desires, and professions. You will be able to share the highlights of these experiences with your peers at the end of the term. Everyone’s path with language is a little different – let’s explore these paths together!
LING 144 How to Learn Language - CoreEd satisfying course, 4-credits
In this course we will discover how to be more successful language learners (in particular), but also better learners in general. The skills taught in this class will be transferable to any learning endeavor you might take on. We will explore how to establish personal learning goals, how to learn collaboratively as a community how to discover individual weaknesses and strengths as learners, and how to think critically and creatively about how we draw upon strengths and address weaknesses when faced with any new learning challenge. We will set individual language-learning goals and explore empirically validated learning strategies that will help reach those goals.
Choose your language path:
Any first or second year language course, see below for examples:
SPAN 101, GER 101, PORT 101, KRN 101, SPAN 111, FR 111, FR 112, GER 201, JPN 201, SPAN 201 etc.