SLHS 1402 is also offered in Spring 2025
SLHS 1402 is also offered in Spring 2024
SLHS 1402 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2020 | SLHS 1402 Section 001: The Talking Brain (53099)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Shevlin Hall 20
- Enrollment Status:
Open (47 of 50 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How the brain produces/understands speech/language, including various aspects of the nervous system involved in producing/understanding speech/language. Differences in brain structure/function among individuals with and without brain injury, based on scientific versus historical, mass media and literature portrayals.
- Class Description:
- This course examines the relationship of human communication and its disorders to our biological makeup. We first discuss the origin of language, how the brain is involved in language and speech, do animals talk, are there differences between how men and women communicate based on biology, and the ways we investigate the involvement of our nervous system in communication. In the latter part of the class we discuss the difference between communication differences (dialects, second language users) and disorders, and how different brain abnormalities affect our ability to communicate. Interwoven throughout the course, we look at the how society views and understands communication disorders and differences This is done by looking at movies and reading books. The movies and books are stories of individuals who have different communication disorders -- biographical or fiction. For example one of the movies that we consider is "Rain Man", the story of an adult autistic savant and his relationship with his brother. The course is made up of lectures and small group exercises. Readings are from one textbook and from a collection of articles, most of which are drawn from popular magazines and journals (e.g. Newsweek, Time, and Scientific American). The major writing assignments are reports on one movie and one book selected from a list provided by the instructor. In addition to the reports there are three "objective" tests (multiple choice, true/false, short answer)
- Grading:
- 15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
15% Reports/Papers
15% Additional Semester Exams
40% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 45% Lecture
10% Film/Video
45% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 25 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
2 Book Report(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53099/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 October 2007
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2020 Speech-Language-Hearing Sci Classes