Undergraduate majors in linguistics can expect to be prepared to undertake professional graduate studies in linguistics and related areas or to pursue careers in such language related fields as education, publishing, and certain sectors of business. The Department of Linguistics offers programs leading to a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy with a major in linguistics. For graduate admission and degree requirements, please see the Graduate Catalog. The remainder is to be selected in consultation with the undergraduate advisor. Majors are urged to continue their foreign language study beyond the minimum 16 units required by the college.
Course work for the supporting minor is selected in consultation with the undergraduate advisor.
The department participates in the honors program. Central notions of generative grammar. Aspects of the structure of English and other languages. Students will have many problem sets containing data from dozens of languages. I II Considers the sound structure of a wide variety of human languages, with the aim of finding principles that describe in an insightful way the properties of their sounds and sound patterns.