Twelve courses (36 credits minimum), including Junior Year Writing.
Required core:
- LINGUIST 201 How Language Works: Introduction to Linguistic Theory
- LINGUIST 390A Fundamentals of Speech Sounds
- LINGUIST 401 Introduction to Syntax
- LINGUIST 402 Speech Sounds and Structure OR LINGUIST 414 Introductory Phonetics for Linguists (LINGUIST 390A prerequisite for both LING 402 and 414)
- LINGUIST 510 Introduction to Semantics (LINGUIST 401 prerequisite)
Cross-linguistic requirement: two courses
Courses currently offered through the linguistics department typically every one or two years:
- LINGUIST 350 Syntax & Dialects/English (also counts as JYW)
- LINGUIST 370 The Sounds of Englishes
- LINGUIST 389 Introduction to African American English (also counts as IE)
- LINGUIST 390B French Linguistics
- LINGUIST 404 Field Methods (also counts as IE)
- LINGUIST 413 Lang Variation in Social Contexts
- LINGUIST 592T Introduction to Tone and Intonation (prereq: LING 402 or LING 414)
Other cross-linguistic courses that have offered in the past by the linguistics department (not currently regularly offered, but may be again in the future):
- LINGUIST 391B Indigenous Languages of North America
- LINGUIST 391T Typology
- LINGUIST 397S ST-Linguistics/Sign Language
- LINGUIST 495C Morphology
- LINGUIST 505 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Linguistically oriented courses on a language other than English at the 300-400 level and courses on the structure of a language other than English offered in other departments:
A sampling of courses from departments outside linguistics that students have used to count as cross-linguistic courses recently is given below. Consult with your advisor! Some of these courses are already in the ARR as counting towards the requirement and others will need to be manually added by your advisor.
ANTHRO 290STB Language and Health
ANTHRO 360 Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
CHINESE 326 Inten Interm Chin I
CHINESE 375 Intro Chin Ling
Classics 540 Intro To Sanskrit
ENGLISH 313 Intro to Old English Poetry
FRENCHST 371 Adv Grammar & Composition I
FRENCHST 473 Adv Grammar & Composition II
GERMAN 310 Advanced German
GERMAN 320 Advanced German
GREEK 320 Classical Greek Prose
ITALIAN 371 Advanced Grammar & Composition
ITALIAN 372 Oral Italian
JAPANESE 326 Intns Interm Japan I
JAPANESE 327 Ints Interm Japan II
JAPANESE 375 Intro Japan Ling
JAPANESE 556 Intro Classical Japanese I
LATIN 310 Latin Prose
LATIN 320 Latin Poetry
LATIN 425 Vergil’s Aeneid
LATIN 450 Cicero’s Orations
LATIN 455 The Poetry of Ovid
LATIN 460 The Roman Novel
LATIN 616 Advanced Latin Grammar
PORTUG 311 Advanced Grammar
SPANISH 306 Spanish Pronunciation
SPANISH 310 Adv Language through Culture
SPANISH 311 Advanced Grammar
SPANISH 378 Spanish Phonetics
Spanish 382 Spanish in the US
SPANISH 390STB Intro/QuechuaLanguageCulture
SPANISH 470 General View/Hispanic Linguist
SPANISH 471 Linguistic Varieties and Pluralism
SPANISH 472 PhonologicalEvol/Latin-Spanish
SPANISH 474 Caribbean Spanish
Departmental electives (5 courses):
Five additional courses are required. Any linguistics class can be an elective, although no more than one 100-level class can be so used. You also do not have to take any 100-level classes! (the Academic Requirements Report sometimes confuses people about this).
Students may select up to two electives from certain related departments (e.g., Anthropology, Computer Science, Communication Disorders, Legal Studies, Philosophy, Psychology) to count for this requirement. Consult with your advisor.
Integrative Experience (IE) requirement:
Take one of the following Linguistics IE courses. Note that your IE course also counts as an elective or cross-linguistic requirement course (389 and 404 can count as cross-linguistic courses, all of them can count as linguistics electives).
- LINGUIST 389, 394BIE, 404, 412
Junior Year Writing (JYW) requirement:
The Junior Year Writing (JYW) requirement is met by taking LINGUIST 305 (which is currently offered in the Fall semester) or LINGUIST 350. The Junior Year Writing requirement does not need to be satisfied in your junior year. LINGUIST 305 and 350 also count as linguistics electives.
Common requirements for all majors:
A grade of C or better must be earned in any course used to satisfy major requirements.
College of Humanities and Fine Arts requirement:
- Foreign Language: All students must demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language at the intermediate level.
University Graduation requirements:
See the New Student Orientation and Transition’s Requirements page for more details about University graduation requirements, including General Education requirements. You must accumulate at least 120 credits/units to graduate.