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Feb 05, 2025
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LGCS118 PO - Social Awkwardness and the Principles of Human InteractionWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): M.Diercks
Credit: 1
One of the most widespread social experiences in our culture is awkwardness: even the most socially adept among us cannot avoid experiencing and even creating awkwardness at times. This course explores the underlying principles of human interaction and human nature that result in social awkwardness, focusing mainly (though not only) on awkwardness triggered in language and conversation. The reading in the course will be interdisciplinary, relying on ideas from various subfields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology and psychology with the dual purposes of explaining awkwardness in everyday life, and understanding the principles of human interaction. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: LGCS 010 PO and a core linguistics course.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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