Course Description: Study of the nature of Sociolinguistics (SL), language variety, bilingualism/multilingualism and diglossia, language contact, code switching and code mixing, integration and interference, language attitudes and choices, language change, shift and maintenance, as well as SL research through face-to-face activities, training, structured assignments, independent learning, and simulations to produce articles/papers to be presented in class discussions and exhibitions/programme work exhibitions.