Major
Undergraduate Linguistics Major Requirements
Requirements for the major: 33 credits
Prescribed Core Courses: 12 Credits
- LING 100 (3) = Foundations of Linguistics
- LING 402 (3) = Syntax I
- LING 404 (3) = Phonology I
- LING 449 (3) = Semantics I
Quantitative Requirement: 3 credits
- STAT 200 (4) OR another appropriate statistics course
Social Requirement: 3 credits, choose ONE of the following:
- LING 448 (3) = Sociolinguistics
- LING 405 (3) = Historical Linguistics
- APLING 200 (3) = Language, Culture and Social Interaction (anthropological linguistics)
Non-English Linguistics Requirement: 3 credits, choose ONE of the following:
- LING 493 (3) = Linguistic Field Methods
- FR 316 (3) = French Linguistics
- FR 417 (3) = French Phonology
- FR 418 (3) = French Syntax
- FR 419 (3) = French Semantics
- GER 412 (3) = Contrastive analysis of German and English
- GER 430 (3) = History of German
- LATIN 450 (3) = History of Latin
- SPAN 314 (3) = Spanish Sounds
- SPAN 315 (3) = Spanish and Spanish-speakers in the US
- SPAN 316 (3) = Building words and sentences in Spanish
- SPAN 418 (3) = The evolution of Spanish
Additional Courses: 12 credits
6 Additional credits in Linguistics at the 400-level (see list below), which can include 448, 405 or 493, if those were not used to satisfy one of the requirements above.
6 Additional credits EITHER from LING or from the approved related courses list (see below). This can also include language-specific linguistics courses from the list above that have not been used to satisfy the Non-English Linguistics requirement.
You may only count 3 credits total of EITHER LING 494 or LING 496 (not both) for the major.
Note: if you would like to petition for a course to be added to the approved related courses list, please contact the director of the Linguistics Program (Mike Putnam), and/or the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Deborah Morton)
Additional 400-Level Linguistics Courses:- LING 429/PSYCH 426 - Language and Thought (3 credits)
Relations between language and cognition; cognitive implications of normal and impaired language development; cognition and bilingualism.
- 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 457/PSYCH 457 - Psychology of Language (3 credits)
Overview of psychological research and theory on language processes, including speech perception, word recognition, meaning representation, comprehension, and language acquisition.
- LING 494 - Research Project (3 credits)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
or LING 496 - Independent Studies (3 credits)
Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses. NOTE: Only 3 credits total of EITHER 494 OR 496 can count towards the major. - LING 497 - Special Topics, as offered (3 credits)
- Graduate courses at the 500 level may be taken by advanced undergraduates on the recommendation of an advisor.
- AFAM 422 = Contemporary African American communication
- APLING 210 = Ecology of global English
- APLING 310 = Language rights, policy, and planning
- APLING 430 = Language, culture and cognition in East Asian contexts
- APLING 482 = Applied Linguistics
- APLING 484 = Functional discourse grammar
- APLING 491 = L2 acquisition
- ASIA 200 = What are Asian languages?
- CAMS 420 = Aramaic
- CAMS 470 = Languages and cultures of the ancient Near East
- CAMS 471 = Sumerian
- CAMS 472 = Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian)
- CAMS 481 = Middle Egyptian
- CAMS 490 = Ancient Mediterranean languages
- CMPSC 464 = Introduction to the theory of computation
- CSD 311 = Clinical Phonetics
- CSD 331 = Anatomy and physiology for speech and hearing
- CSD 341 = Acoustic principles
- CSD 442 = Disorders of phonetics
- CSD 444 = Organic disorders of speech and language
- EDUC 467 = English language structure for English as a Second Language teachers
- ENGL 407 = History of English
- IST 230 = Language, logic and discrete mathematics
- LLED 445 = Teaching English in bilingual/dialectal situations
- PHIL 129 = Philosophy of Language