The Linguistics department has adopted a set of 6 learning objectives for the undergraduate major that concisely summarize its  goals: https://websites.umass.edu/linguist/student-learning-objectives/. These objectives will help to inform future course and program development, and will help to communicate the goals of individual courses and the major to students. The goals are also meant to highlight how a Linguistics education prepares students for a range of possible future endeavors. The link above contains a mapping of the goals to individual courses – here are the objectives themselves:

Learning Objective 1:  Ability to reason analytically about language

Learning Objective 2: Basic quantitative and computational competence in language research

Learning Objective 3: An understanding of linguistic theories and their relationship to language diversity

Learning Objective 4: An understanding of linguistic discrimination

Learning Objective 5: Ability to communicate about language

Learning Objective 6: Ability to work as an effective member of a team