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

• 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 (John Lipski)

• 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
• 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