1. To achieve a basic understanding of how speech sounds are made and how they function in human communication.
2. To achieve a basic understanding of how words are formed in English and how we may analyse their meaning.
3. To acquire a basic knowledge and appropriate use of linguistic terminology in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and lexical semantics.
4. To acquire basic skills in broad and narrow transcription of individual English words, using IPA symbols.
5. To acquire the basic skills to analyse the main lexical and grammatical word groups of English.
6. To achieve a basic understanding of how linguistics and phonetics relate to other disciplines, such as psychology, education, sociology, anatomy, physiology, audiology, and speech pathology.
7. To gain an appreciation of how the science of linguistics relates to other important aspects of being human.