This course is designed as an introduction to principles and methods of Linguistics. It aims to provide students with a basic understanding of human language, through which they will learn about the general structure that underlies all languages as well as the great variety of existing human languages. The course will cover various levels of linguistic structure, including speech sounds and sound patterns, word formation, sentence structure, the study of meaning and language change, and class discussion will include topics such as children’s language, animal communication compared with human language, why there are different dialects in languages, and language and the brain. Students are expected to learn from plenty of practices in solving problems and dealing with linguistic data.