The Honors Major in Linguistics

Honors Advisor: David Odden, odden@ling.osu.edu

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)

Prerequisite Course Work (15 hours) — does not count toward the minimum number of hours required in the major

Introductory course in linguistics: (5 hours)
Ling(H)201 or 270 or 601
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
Analytic prerequisite (one of the following): (5 hours)
Linguistics 280, 286 or 680
Philosophy 250
Mathematics 366
Statistics 135 or 145
Psychology 219

Major Core Courses 25 hours

Required (may be taken in any order):
Phonetics: Linguistics 500
Syntax: Linguistics 502
Phonology: Linguistics 503
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)

Ling595 Undergraduate Research Seminar in Linguistics 5 hours
One Two-course Sequence, from among the following (or some other sequence approved by the linguistics honors advisor) 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
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