Thursdays, 1:30 pm–3:30 pm | April 10–May 22
Location: 1st Congregational Church, Hopkinton
Instructor: Don Melander

We will screen episodes of The Great Courses The Story of Human Language and read Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language. We will study how language evolved in the human species and how children learn language.

Don Melander is a professor of English Emeritus at New England College, where, in addition to teaching literature and humanities, he taught a course called Language and Grammar, which was a required course for Education majors. He earned MA and PhD degrees in English and American literature, including a course on the language we call “Anglo Saxon” (“Old English”).