Undergraduate Study at OSU Linguistics

The Honors Major in Linguistics

Honors Advisor: Cynthia Clopper, cclopper@ling.ohio-state.edu
Department website: Linguistics Web site

Honors students majoring in linguistics are expected to follow a course of study which is more challenging than the regular major. This includes a more specific analytic prerequisite (higher level logic or statistics), a 50 credit-hour requirement, an area-depth requirement consisting of a sequence of two (typically) upper level courses in one subject area, and a required research seminar.

(At least 50 hours, excluding prerequisites)

1. Prerequisite Course Work (15 hours) -- does not count toward the minimum number of hours required in the major
   
   1. Introductory course in linguistics: (5 hours)
      Ling(H)201 or 270 or 601
   2. Language requirement (one of the following): (5 hours)
      Advanced foreign language course beyond 104 (preferably at the 200 level)
      Linguistics 550 or 650.01 (Field Methods). This may also be satisfied by 5 hours at any level in a second not closely related language, by permission
   3. Analytic prerequisite (one of the following): (5 hours)
      Linguistics 280, 286 or 680
      Philosophy 250
      Mathematics 366
      Statistics 135 or 145
      Psychology 219
2. Major Core Courses, 25 hours
   1. Required (may be taken in any order) - it is advised that you take at least one of these courses in your first year:
      Phonetics: Linguistics 500
      Syntax: Linguistics 502
      Phonology: Linguistics 503
   2. Two courses from the following list (one course from two areas):
      Historical Linguistics: Linguistics 301 or 611
      Sociolinguistics: Linguistics (H)372, 375 or 661.01
      Psycholinguistics: Linguistics (H)371 or 615
      Field Methods: Linguistics 550 or 650.01 (may not be used concurrently to satisfy the language prerequisite)
3. Ling699 Undergraduate Research Seminar in Linguistics, 5 hours
   (Preferrably taken at least a year before graduation; requires at least 1 prior 500-level course)
4. One Two-course Sequence, from among the following (or some other sequence approved by the linguistics honors advisor), not used to satisfy b.ii, 10 hours
   Computational Linguistics: Linguistics 684.01, 684.02
   Sociolinguistics: Linguistics 661.01, 661.02
   Field Methods: Linguistics 550, 650.01 or 650.02
   Historical linguistics: 301, 611
   Phonetics: Linguistics 600.01, 600.02
   Phonology: Linguistics 603.01, 603.02
   Psycholinguistics: Linguistics (H)371, 615
   Semantics: Linguistics 683.01, 683.02
   Syntax: Linguistics 602.01, 602.02
5. Two elective courses not used to satisfy requirements a-d, 10 hours
   
   Some suggested linguistics courses for undergraduate majors:
   Language & Formal Reasoning: 280
   The Sounds of Language 286 & H286
   Language Evolution and Language Change: 301
   Language, Race & Ethnicity in the U.S.: 303
   Language, Sex and Gender in American Culture: 367
   Languages and Social Identity in the U.S.: 372 and H372
   Languages across Cultures: 375
   Language and the Mind: 371 & H371
   Words and Meaning: 383
   Language and Computers: 384 & H384
   Codes and Code-Breaking 484
   Research Internship in the Humanities: Hum489
   Language & the Black Experience: 505
   Language Endangerment and Language Death: 597.01
   Language and Law: A cross-cultural perspective: 597.02
   Independent Study: 693 (see advisor for details)
   Morphology: 509 or 609
   Phonetics: 600.01, 600.02
   Syntax: 602.01, 602.02
   Phonology: 603.01, 603.02
   Historical Linguistics: 611
   Cognitive Science: 612
   Psycholinguistics: (H)371, 615
   Field Methods: 550, 650.01, 650.02
   Sociolinguistics: 661.01, 685
   Semantics: 680, 683.01, 683.02
   Computational Linguistics: 684.01, 684.02
   
   Some possible configurations of elective courses keyed to related areas:
   Computational linguistics: 684.01, 684.02
   Anthropological linguistics: 367, 372 or 375, 550 or 650.01, 661.01
   Computer and Information Science: Linguistics 612, 680, 684.01, 684.02
   Education: Linguistics 372, 371, 615
   Electrical Engineering: Linguistics 500, 600.01/600.02; or 680, 684.01/682.02
   Foreign Language: A two-quarter sequence at the 600 level in phonetics, syntax, or phonology; and Linguistics 611
   Philosophy: Linguistics 612, 680, 683.01, 683.02
   Political Science: Linguistics 367, 372 or 375, 661.01
   Psychology: Linguistics 371, 612, 615
   Sociology: Linguistics 367, 372 or 375, 661.01
   Speech and Hearing Science: Linguistics 371, 600.01, 600.02, 615
   Women's Studies: Linguistics 367, 372 or 375, 661.01, 661.02