Prospective Undergraduate Majors

Language is both something that we do and something that we have. By studying language, the subject matter of linguistics, we study what makes us human—the physical capacities and motor routines that we use to produce speech and gesture, the visual and auditory capacities that we use to perceive language, the cognitive capacities that we use to encode and construct meaning, the imaginative capacity that we display when we use language in creative ways, and the social and cultural identities that we express through language. If you are interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, you can find a wealth of information about the major, requirements for the major and the application process on this site, simply by visiting the Linguistics Major section.