Phonetics is the scientific study of speech sounds from their articulatory, physical and auditory perspective; while phonology studies the patterning and function of speech sounds in particular languages. This course introduces both phonetics and phonology at the undergraduate level. Students will acquire the fundamentals of phonetic and phonological description and analysis. To accompany this theoretical and practical grounding, there will be some introduction to the tools of recording and software for speech analysis, which will give students some preliminary skills in doing phonetics and phonology of African/Cameroon languages. Finally, this course has a service-learning requirement, and so it will serve to satisfy that requirement in the BA Linguistics degree. This will include different options for different students based on interest and skill levels: editing or annotating archival sound files from African/Cameroonian languages, perhaps participating in a hands-on training session for Africa/Cameroon Native Language Teachers, or digitizing sound files for Africa/Cameroon language projects. Students will emerge from the class with some amount of each of the following: tools to do preliminary sound analyses, theoretical backgrounds to take more advanced phonology classes in upper levels, practical applications of phonetics and phonology for language teaching, and possible research project.