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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Linguistics Concentration
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Linguistics
Chair(s):
Cynthia Hansen (Anthropology)
Faculty:
Ashley Abraham (Psychology)
Timothy Arner (English)
John Fennell (Philosophy)
Brigittine French (Anthropology)
Eleanor Glewwe (French)
Cori Jakubiak (Education)
Angelo Mercado (Classics)
Kelly Herold (Russian)
Carmen Valentín (Spanish)
The interdisciplinary field of Linguistics is concerned with the study of language from a scientific perspective. Linguists look for patterns both within individual languages and across many languages in order to describe how language works, hypothesize how it is represented in the mind, and analyze how it is used in society. Courses in the Linguistics Concentration investigate the core aspects of human language, including the physical properties and structure of sounds (phonetics and phonology), words (morphology), and sentences (syntax). In addition to the study of these core areas of structure, elective courses in the Departments of Anthropology, Classics, Computer Science, Education, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Spanish, and other foreign languages offer various perspectives on different aspects of language and its uses. Some formal knowledge of a language other than English is required. The capstone experience for students in the concentration will either be a research seminar in Linguistics, an Independent Study, or a MAP, which are expected to build on past work in the student’s program. Students who complete the capstone through an Independent Study or MAP will be required to give a public presentation on campus.
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Concentration requirements: 22 or 24 credits as follows:
1. Linguistics 114: 4 credits
2. Linguistics Core - 4 credits chosen from:
3. Elective courses - 12 credits chosen from:
- ANT 250 - Language Contact 4 credits or the cross-listed course LIN 250
- ANT 260 - Language, Culture, and Society 4 credits
- ANT 265 - Ethnography of Communication: Method and Theory 4 credits
- ANT 268 - Language, Gender and Sexuality 4 credits
- ANT 295 - Special Topics on Linguistic Anthropology or related issues as approved by the Linguistics Concentration Committee 4 credits
- ANT 365 - Fighting Words: Conflict, Discourse, and Power 4 credits
- CLS 270 - Indo-European Language and Culture 4 credits or the cross-listed course LIN 270
- CSC 205 - Computational Linguistics 4 credits or the cross-listed course LIN 205
- CSC 341 - Automata, Formal Languages, and Computational Complexity 4 credits
- EDU 213 - Cultural Politics of Language Teaching 4 credits
- ENG 230 - English Historical Linguistics 4 credits
- LIN 216 - Syntax 4 credits
- LIN 280 - Phonetics/Phonology 4 credits
- LIN 317 - Language Change 4 credits
- LIN 295 Special Topics on Linguistics or related issues (if offered as a core course, alternating with the one chosen as a core course.)
- LIN 395 Special Topics Seminar on Linguistics or related issues (when LIN 317 , LIN 397 , or LIN 499 course is completed; or when course is repeated for credit when topics change)
- PHI 102 - Symbolic Logic 4 credits
- PHI 256 - Philosophy of Language and Cognition 4 credits
- PSY 355 - Psychology of Language 4 credits
- SPN 343 - The Art of Language 4 credits
- SPN 384 - Spanish Dialectology 4 credits
4. Advanced core courses: 2 or 4 credits
Students may choose one of the following options for the fulfillment of this requirement: |
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