A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: This course aims at introducing students to the field of applied linguistics and its major areas of study: pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. The course examines some of the key ongoing debates in current applied linguistics, focusing on what languages are, what it is to know and learn a language, the 'native speaker', globalization and the spread of English, the politics of language and identity, what 'cultures' are in relation to language.