This course is open to all upper division or graduate students from any department. There are no course prerequisites.

This course is useful for students in many disciplines.

• Linguistics students will acquire a toolkit for metaphor analysis and will be exposed to metaphor data that differs markedly from what they will have been exposed to in traditional linguistic approaches.
• Literature and language students will be exposed to conceptual metaphors as they are used in everyday and in literary language, and will learn how to apply metaphor theory to literary analysis.
• Philosophy students will learn about embodied theories of mind, which differ markedly from traditional disembodied theories of mind.
• Psychology students will find new avenues of investigation into cognitive structure and processes through language.
• Anthropology students will learn about how cultural beliefs and practices influences the conceptual systems of individuals in those cultures through metaphor, and will see differences and commonalities in metaphor and cognition across cultures.

Since the subject matter includes comparative language and conceptual structures, students from all disciplines will be exposed to the commonalities and differences in conceptual systems across cultures.