The Linguistics Minor

The Minor

One very good reason to take the Linguistics minor is that by learning to analyze language and evaluate claims about language you can improve the quality of your writing and argumentation in your major discipline. You can profitably combine the Linguistics minor with a major in one of the modern languages, Classics, Psychology or Speech, Hearing and Language Science—to name just a few possibilities. You must see the staff advisor to declare the minor. Go to the Arts and Sciences Academic Advising Center website to make an appointment with the staff advisor Izabela Kenney.

Requirements for the Minor

• Complete a total of 18 credit hours in Linguistics, 9 of which must be at the upper-division level. Maintain an overall and a LING grade point average of at least a 2.00 (C), and complete all LING courses with a C- or better.
• Complete LING 2000: Introduction to Linguistics.
• Complete two of the following 3-credit courses: LING 3100 (Sound Structure), LING 3430 (Semantics), and LING 4420 (Morphology and Syntax).
• Take the remaining one of the 3 courses listed immediately above above and/or choose from the following 3-credit electives to bring your total credit hours to 18 (courses marked with an asterisk * may be taken to satisfy Arts and Sciences Core requirements as well as LING requirements):

  LING 1000: Language in US Society*

  LING 1010: The Study of Words

  LING 2400: Language and Gender*

  LING 3005: Cognitive Science

  LING 3220: American Indian Languages*

  LING 3500: Language and the Public Interest

  LING 3545: World Language Rights and Policies

  LING 4100: Perspectives on Language*

  LING 4220: Language and Mind

  LING 4560: Language Development

  LING 4610: English Structure for TESOL

  LING 4800: Language and Culture 

• At least three credit hours of your electives must be an upper-division course.