Linguistics Major

Students majoring in linguistics are required to study three of the four core divisions of the field (Phonetics/Phonology, Syntax, Semantics and/or Sociolinguistics) and in addition to take a range of courses dealing with the variety of languages and variation within a language. Majors are required to take:

LGCS 010 PZ
A basic upper-division course in three out of the four core areas-LGCS 108 PO -Phonology or LGCS 104 PO -Phonetics , LGCS 105 PO -Syntactic Analysis , LGCS 106 PO -Semantics & Pragmatics and/or LGCS 112 PZ -Language and Society .
A course that looks at one language in depth or compares several languages. Sample courses that could fill this requirement include: LGCS 125 PO -Field Methods in Linguistics , LGCS 101 PO -Comparative/Historical Ling. , Spanish Linguistics, etc.
At least three other linguistics courses.
(a) At least two years of a foreign language or (b) the equivalent in demonstrated competence.
LGCS 190 PO -Senior Seminar in Linguistics . Students who wish to continue working on thesis after the seminar can register for LGCS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis in Spring. Alternatively, students substitute some other type of project,if approved by the faculty advisor.

*Note: In the 5-College Course Schedule, Linguistics courses are listed as “LGCS” (Linguistics and Cognitive Science)

Linguistics Courses

Anthropology

• ANTH 003 PZ -Language, Culture & Society

Linguistics

Psychology

Spanish

• SPAN 109 PO -Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

Linguistics Honors

Honors in the Linguistics major are awarded when the student meets the required GPA for honors at their particular college and completes a thesis which the faculty judges to be of honors quality.