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Course Syllabus
Course Name History of English
Category Cultural Competence
Year Taken First or Second Year
Offered Major/ Type of Course Major 1, 2, 3 / Elective
No. of Credit 2
Number of Classes 16
Professor Makoto Ikeda

Professor Profile:
Waseda Univeritt School of Political Science and Economics, BA (1988), Sophia University Literature Department BA (1990), University of Leeds Graduate School English Literature, Sophia University Graduate School of Literature MA (1992), Sophia University Graduate School of Literature Doctor of Literature (1997), Kings College of London English Education and Applied Linguistics (2008). Lectured at Toho Gakuen University, Waseda University, Kyoto University Graduate School and presently Sophia University Literature Department Adjunct Professor. Specialized in history of English grammar. Authored “Competing Grammars: Noah Webster’s Vain Efforts to Defeat Lindley Murray” and other books and articles.
Course Summary Follow how English has changed from Proto-Indo-European, Germanic, Early-English, Middle-English, to Modern-English from its external history (political, economical, and social transitions etc) and internal history (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and spelling).
How this course was developed When Babel University Professional School of Translation first began, it was important to offer not only courses that developed skills as a translator, but also as a graduate school to offer more purely academic courses as well. Professor Makoto Ikeda, who has a wealth of experience in English history, teaches this course. This course was added to Babel University Professional School of Translation's program in 2007.
Course Objective Have students understand clearly the relationship between English and other Indo-European languages (especially German, French, Greek and Latin) and the true nature and linguistic characters of English (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and spelling) through illuminating historical issues now considered irregularities.
Learning Outcome  Students who have successfully completed this course will be able to understand linguistic characters of English through the history of English and other Indo-European languages. 
Course Progression 1. Read the textbook
2. Listen to audio lecture and gain a better understanding of the core material and lecture notes
3. Submit assignment and check degree of acquisition
4. Use the Q&A for any queries
Deliverable (Course Text, etc) "Standard English Lectures Vol.3 -History of English" edited by Shoichi Watanabe, Taishukan Publishing
Online lecture notes
*Authored by Professor
* Revised in November 2012
Course Outline
There will be 16 lectures as below.
Follow the instructions in the course guide to progress through the course.
The below are the details.
1. Read the assigned pages in the textbook before listening to the lecture, and understand the outline on the topic
2. Referring to lecture notes, listen to audio lecture
3. Submit assignment in each lecture to check the level of your understanding on the topic
4. Using the answers to the assignment, review the topic for each lecture

　Lecture Course Title Description
Lecture 1 English Roots I
(Indo-European Languages and Comparative Linguistics)		 1. Discovery of Indo-European Languages
2. Beginning of Comparative Linguistics
3. Indo-European Language Family Tree
Lecture 2 English Roots II
(Phonological Changes and Home of Indo-European Languages)		 1. Grimm’s Law
2. Home of Indo-European Languages
Lecture 3 English Roots III
(Master Race of the Great Britain Island and their Influence)		 1. Natives of the Great Britain Island
2. Settlement of the German
3. Influence by Celtic and Latin
4. Origin of the Name of Country (Great Britain Island)
5. Patronymic
Lecture 4 Old-English Age I
(Age Classification)		 1. Age Classification in English History
2. Old-English Letters and Pronunciations
3. ‘Lord’s Prayers’ in Old-English　
Lecture 5 Old-English Age II
(Morphology)　		 1. Classification of Inflected Language by Grammatical Form
2. Inflection of Noun
3. Inflection of Verb　
Lecture 6 Old-English Age III
(Syntax)　		 1. Word Order
2. Course of Change in Language
3. Subjunctive　
Lecture 7 Old-English Age IV
(Vocabulary) 　		 1. Old-English Vocabulary
2 Christian Missionary Works
3. Loanword from Latin　
Lecture 8 Old-English Age V
(Influence of the Vikings)　		 1. Attack of the Vikings
2. Influence to Vocabulary
3. Influence to Grammar　
Lecture 9 Middle-English Age I
(Norman Conquest and Grammar)　		 1. Norman Conquest and the Process of English Revival
2. Change in Grammar
Lecture 10 Middle-English Age II
(Vocabulary 1)　		 1. Loanword from French
2. Types of French Words Adopted into English
3. Age of Loan from French
Lecture 11 Middle-English Age III
(Vocabulary 2)　		 1. Loan word from Latin
2. Synonyms in Three Layers
3. “Yamato Language (Word from Ancient Japanese)” and “Kango (Japanese Word of Chinese Origin)” in English
Lecture 12 Middle-English Age IV
(Dialect and Examples)		 1. Dialect of Middle-English
2. Example of Middle-English
Lecture 13 Modern-English Age I
(Standard English and Change in Pronunciation)		 1. Formation of Modern-English
2. Great Vowel Shift
Lecture 14 Modern-English Age II
(Renaissance, Reformation, and Vocabulary)		 1. Two ‘R’s (Renaissance and Reformation) and Two Views of Languages
2. Loanword from Latin and Greek
3. Non-Democratic Features of English
4. Renaissance Spelling
Lecture 15 Modern-English Age III
(Spelling)		 1. Shakespearean English
2. What is Classicism Age?
3. Issues in Spelling (Phoneticism and Traditionalism)
Lecture 16 Modern-English Age IV
(Dictionary and Grammar)　		 1. English Academy Campaign
2. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary
3. Formation of Normative Grammar
Grade Evaluation and Course Requirement Number of Assignments: 16 (All 16 assignments are required)

There will be no final exam for this course.
Grades will be evaluated on the scores of the assignments from grades A to F.
Grade Score
A 85 - 100
B 70 - 84
C 60 - 69
D 50 - 59
F 49 and under
Submission papers will be returned with the evaluation sheet, which states evaluation marking and comments as well as corrections with rubrics.

*Minimum Course Requirement: B or above
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