Since the students who take this course usually have varied backgrounds in generative phonology, the course may be given (a) as an introduction to generative phonology using a standard textbook or (b) as a reading based course discussing a selection of more advanced papers, typically overview type ones from phonology handbooks. See some possible examples below.

(a)

Hayes, Bruce (2011) Introductory Phonology. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Elizabeth C. Zsiga. (2013). The Sounds of Language An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

(b)

John A. Goldsmith (ed). (1995) The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 1st Edition. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Paul de Lacy (ed.). (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

S. J. Hannahs and Anna R. K. Bosch (eds.) (2018) The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. London & New York: Routledge.

van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (eds.) The Blackwell companion to phonology. 5 vols., Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.