The objective of this course is to acquaint students with Engish pronuncaition, putting emphasis on stress placement and intonation in the third semester because of their importance in speech. In addition to this, the shift to aspects of connected speech such as  weak forms, linking, elision and assimilation aim  to help students develop their speaking and listening competencies in order to be fluent and also to have the capacity to understand speakers for the sake of communication

The nineteenth century was a formative and transformative century in the history of the American people.  It was critical in the geo-historical shaping of contemporary United States of America.  The course sheds light and explains the transformations that were brought about by the United States' territorial acquisitions, the winning of the American West, sectional opposition and conflict between the North and the South, and other domestic political and social upheavals of the nineteenth century.  The course also tackles the rise of the United States as an industrial and imperial power at the turn of the twentieth century.