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Linguistics Program

Linguistics is the study of language both as a faculty of mind and as a social institution. Linguistics at William & Mary is administered through the Roy R. Charles Center as an interdisciplinary program.

Linguistics majors learn about speech sounds, word formation, and sentence structure in the world’s languages, along with models for representing linguistic knowledge in the mind and tools for discovering the structure of different languages. They also study language change, including the history of English, and language variation within communities, including its social and political bases.

Programs and Course Descriptions

Programs

• Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Studies, BA
• Linguistics, Minor

Courses

• LING 100 - Critical Questions in Linguistics
• LING 150 - First-Year Seminar
• LING 220 - Study of Language
• LING 230 - Topics in Linguistics
• LING 240 - The Sound of Meaning: Sound Symbolism in Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Culture
• LING 250 - African-American English
• LING 260 - Speech Sound Analysis
• LING 303 - History of the English Language
• LING 304 - Syntax
• LING 307 - Phonetics and Phonology
• LING 308 - Language and Culture
• LING 346 - Foreign Language Acquisition Processes: Theory and Practice
• LING 358 - First Language Acquisition
• LING 370 - Psycholinguistics
• LING 380 - Computational Methods in Language Science
• LING 400 - Meaning and Understanding in Western Cultural Thought
• LING 402 - Language and Gender
• LING 404 - Historical Linguistics
• LING 406 - Language and Society
• LING 407 - Advanced Phonetics and Phonology
• LING 408 - Independent Research in Phonetics and Phonology
• LING 410 - Language Attitudes
• LING 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
• LING 418 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
• LING 420 - Caribbean Linguistics
• LING 440 - Linguistic Field Methods
• LING 441 - Sociolinguistic Field Methods
• LING 464 - Topics in Linguistics
• LING 474 - Research Seminar in Linguistics
• LING 481 - Independent Study in Linguistics
• LING 482 - Independent Community-based Study in Linguistics
• LING 495 - Honors
• LING 496 - Honors