The Department administers undergraduate majors in Linguistics, in Russian, and in Slavic Studies, as well as minor programs in Asian Studies and in Russian and East European Studies.
Departmental honors require successful completion of honors comprehensive requirements.
The Department maintains listings of related courses from other departments that satisfy various program requirements. Substitutions and exemptions from specific program requirements, as well as the application of courses from other institutions, require express permission from the Chairperson. The focus of the linguistics program does not lie alone in the acquisition of language skills, but rather in learning to analyze linguistic phenomena with a view toward making significant generalizations about the nature of language. Students majoring in Linguistics build their programs around a specific area of concentration, the most common of which is Philology. The following listing represents the usual program for this concentration.