Linguistics deals with the description and analysis of the constituents of language and languages, including meaning, structure, and processes, with the use and misuse of language and languages, as well as with its interaction with cognate disciplines including, but not limited to anthropology, classics, communications studies, computer science, education, English language and literature, English as a second/foreign language, mathematics, neurology, and related sciences of the brain, psychology, and sociology. This course is required for the Florida Department of Education ESOL endorsement.