Linguistics

专业详情

The Program offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics. The major is designed to introduce students to fundamental aspects of the study of human language, emphasizing how an interdisciplinary approach to language better informs a global understanding of language use, structure, acquisition, variation and change. Specifically, the program aims to show how structural, cognitive and sociocultural approaches to the study of language compare, contrast and complement one another.

The major is designed so that students acquire and reinforce a solid introductory base in the study of linguistics (normally Linguistics 101 and 201, followed later by 401). Students then must take a series of breadth courses to ensure more intensive study in a) language and cognition, b) linguistic structure and meaning, c) language, society and culture. Along with this required exposure to different fields and approaches, students take elective courses to deepen their understanding of one or more of the approaches to the study of language. Majors are also required to take two foreign language courses.
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