Curriculum Committee: Carolina Gonzalez, Michael Leeser, Lara Reglero, and Gretchen Sunderman (Modern Languages and Linguistics)
Linguistics is concerned with the study of the nature of language. There are linguistic applications in the areas of anthropology, sociology, psychology, mathematics, computer sciences, philosophy, and audiology and speech pathology.
Students (both undergraduate and graduate) who wish to minor in linguistics should speak with the linguistics adviser, who will help them in designing courses of study that fill their personal and professional needs.
Undergraduate students in linguistics must take at least twelve semester hours from the linguistics courses listed below; two of these must be core courses.
LIN 3041, 4030, 4040, 4512 or 4905
ANT 4640; LIN 3710, 4930, 5772; EXP 4640; PHI 3220
Note: Additional courses may count with approval of the departmental curriculum committee.
Graduate students in linguistics must take at least fifteen semester hours from the linguistics courses listed below; two of these must be core courses.
LIN 5035 or 5045, 5510
LIN 5772, 5908r, 5932; SPN 5805
Note: Additional courses may count with approval of the departmental curriculum committee.