The Four-Year Plan
Linguistics is a friendly major and minor that can productively be combined with study in a variety of other disciplines. Many of our majors combine linguistics with a second or third BA degree, such as Anthropology, Classics, Computer Science, Education, International Affairs, Neuroscience, Psychology, Sociology, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, or any of the many language and literature degrees offered at CU Boulder. If you are looking for an exciting degree program that encourages interdisciplinary connection beyond the home department and can easily be completed in four years, Linguistics is for you!
As a LING major, you will receive the Arts and Sciences four-year graduation guarantee if you follow the plan outlined below. This plan can easily be adapted to fit your needs from semester to semester.
- Declare the major by the second semester of your freshman year.
- Start your required language study (unless this requirement is waived) by the beginning of the sophomore year and continue it without interruption.
- Complete LING 2000 and either LING 1000 or LING 2400 by the end of the sophomore year.
- Take either LING 3430 or LING 4420 during the fall of the junior year.
- Take LING 3100 and an upper-division LING elective in the spring of the junior year.
- Take the remaining required course and an elective in the fall of the senior year, and the remaining electives in the spring of the senior year.
- And then graduate with a prestigious BA in Linguistics from CU Boulder!