Linguistics Program — Requirements
Students in the Linguistics Program must complete seven courses (twenty-one credit hours):
An introductory course: LING 201 (Introduction to Linguistics) or ANTH 281 (Structure of Human Language) or ANTH 285 (Language and Culture)
A course on speech sounds: LING 230 (Speech Sounds and Theory) or APLING 664 (Phonetics and Phonemics)
A course on grammar: LING 310 (Transformational Syntax).
The linguistics junior- or senior-year independent study: LING 478-479 (Independent Study).
A sequence of three advanced courses: Students select three advanced courses in areas of special interest, for example:
- ANTH 385 (The Ethnography of Speaking)
- ENGL 341 (Language and Literature)
- LING 351 (Comparative History of Romance Languages)
- PHIL 360 (Bertrand Russell)
- PHIL 440 (Logic and Language)
- PSYCH 346 (Language Development)
- PSYCH 356 (Psychology of Language and Thought)
- SPAN G200 (
- SPAN 314 (Language Arts) or an advanced course in the grammar or history of a language, or an advanced course in computer language, or a tutorial or independent study in linguistics. Linguistics courses offered by the Applied Linguistics MA program also satisfy Linguistics Program requirements.
- SPAN 420 (Comparative Syntax)
- SPAN 411 (History of the Spanish Language)
- SPAN 412 (Spanish Semantics)
Foreign Language
Linguistics students are required to achieve intermediate standing in a second language or in sign language, or in an artificial language (logic, computer languages).
Many of the courses satisfying Linguistics Program requirements are given by other departments. They deal with a variety of linguistic interests: acoustic phonetics, comparative linguistics, composition theory, Creole language, ethnolinguistics, language development and disorder, language history, literary stylistics, philosophy of language, physiology of language, semiotics, and sociolinguistics.