Linguistics

Programs and Course Descriptions

Faculty

Linguistics Program

Linguistics is the study of language both as a faculty of mind and as a social institution.

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, BA
Linguistics, Minor

Courses

Linguistics

LING 100 - Critical Questions in Linguistics
LING 220 - Study of Language
LING 230 - Topics in Linguistics
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 - Sociocultural Linguistics
LING 310 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
LING 330 - Topics in Linguistics
LING 346 - Foreign Language Acquisition Processes: Theory and Practice
LING 358 - First Language Acquisition
LING 360 - Language Attitudes
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 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
LING 420 - Caribbean Linguistics
LING 424 - Discourse Analysis
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 491 - Research in Linguistics
LING 495 - Honors
LING 496 - Honors