Interdisciplinary Minors

Linguistics

Faculty

Chamberlain, Collier, Goldin, Golomb, Hamburger, Holisky, Jones, Levine, Rothbart, Sanford, Weinberger (coordinator)

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Language is studied in a variety of waysdescriptively, theoretically, computationally, and psychologicallyand as a social phenomenon. The field of linguistics thus informs and is informed by many other areas of study including philosophy, psychology, sociology, computer science, the study of individual languages and literatures, literary studies, and education.

The interdisciplinary minor in linguistics may be combined with a major in one of the areas listed above or in any other field. This minor introduces the student through the required courses to the fundamental concepts of modern linguistic theory and allows the student to explore in the electives how these concepts relate to various other disciplines.

Requirements

Students must complete 15 credits distributed as follows:

1. 3 credits in general linguistics

2. 3 credits from syntactic theory, phonological theory, or linguistic semantics

3. 9 credits of electives, chosen in consultation with the linguistics coordinator (A list of approved electives is available from the coordinator.)