Undergraduates

Undergraduate Linguistics Major

You can create a major in Linguistics through the Bachelor of Philosophy Program

Undergraduate Linguistics Minor Requirements

Requirements for the minor: 18 credits

Prescribed Courses: 9 Credits

• LING 001 (3) = Study of Language OR LING 100 (3) = Foundations of Linguistics
• LING 402 (3) = Syntax I
• LING 404 (3) = Phonology I

Additional Courses: 9 credits

Select 9 additional credits from LING offerings
With the approval of the advisor, certain linguistics courses from related departments may be counted towards the minor.

• LING 401 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory (3 credits)
  A survey of the principles of modern linguistic analysis; current approaches to phonology, morphology and syntax of human languages.
• LING 402 - Syntax I (3 credits)
  Principles of grammatical analysis in the generative framework; an overview of syntactic structures across languages.
• LING 404 - Phonology I (3 credits)
  The analysis of the sound systems of human languages; focus on common phonological processes across languages and on the phonetics-phonology interface.
• LING 446 - First Language Acquisition (3 credits)
  How children learn their first language; psycholinguistic aspects of lexical, syntactic, semantic, and phonological development.
• LING 447 - Bilingualism (3 credits)
  Explores the social and psychological aspects of bilingualism; topics include languages in contact, transference, maintenance and loss.
• LING 448 - Sociolinguistics (3 credits)
  Issues in the study of language in its sociocultural context; analysis of social dialects and speech styles.
• LING 449 - Semantics I (3 credits)
  The study of meaning in human language; problems and methods of analysis in linguistic semantics; study of sense, reference, compositionality, quantification, presupposition, and sentence-level meaning.
• Graduate courses at the 500 level may be taken by advanced undergraduates on the recommendation of an advisor.