This course is designed for BA students. It offers a comprehensive treatment of semantics for students who have little or no knowledge of semantics. The course provides students with a solid understanding of key concepts in semantics and methods of semantic analysis. The course also aims to encourage an active approach on the part of students toward the subject matter. Students successfully completing the course will be able to identify and explain concepts which are central to the study of communication. They will be able to describe and discuss the semantic structure of lexemes and relationships between them. They will also have an enhanced knowledge of the semantic structure of sentences. The course will enable students to proceed to more specialized aspects of semantic analysis.