This one session course introduces students to the exciting world of linguistics, the scientific study of languages.  Discover fascinating topics related to dialects, especially American dialects.  Learn the difference between pidgins and creoles, and the difference between a dead and an extinct language.  Students will learn about such subfields of linguistics as psycholinguistics, historical, cognitive, applied, social, comparative, forensic and others.  There will be a special topic on the brain and its role in language ability and bilingualism.