This course discusses (1) the nature, history and scope of Applied Linguistics studies; (2) bilingualism and multilingualism; (3) contrastive analysis; (4) analysis of language errors; (5) linguistics and first language acquisition; (6) linguistics and second/third language acquisition; (7) linguistics and semantics; (8) literacy; (9) lexicography; (10) language and gender; (11) language and mass media; (12) language planning and state policy; (13) stylistics; (14) discourse analysis and pragmatics; (15) forensic linguistics; (16) linguistics and computerization. This course is presented theoretically and practically using lecture, discussion, presentation and problem-based methods.