Course Suggestions
Both our major and our minor allow students to personalize their program through elective coursework. Listed below are Linguistics courses that might appeal to students based on their areas of interest.
For further support in choosing elective courses, see courses organized by linguistic subfield and descriptions of undergraduate courses in Linguistics.
Area of Interest
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Language and the Black Experience: LING 4601
- Introduction to African-American English: LING 5501
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Social Justice: LING 3605
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Field Methods I: LING 5551
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics: LING 5601
- Languages in Contact: LING 5651
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Social Justice: LING 3605
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language Endangerment and Language Death: LING 3902
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
- Field Methods I: LING 5551
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics: LING 5601
- Morphology: LING 4350 [core course option]
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Morphological Theory: LING 5351
- Elementary Sanskrit: SANSKRT 5902
- Intermediate Sanskrit: SANSKRT 5903
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Code Making and Code Breaking: LING 3801
- Language and Computers: LING 3802
- Ethics of Language Technology: LING 3803
For those interested in syntactic processing:
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Computational Linguistics I: LING 5801
- Computational Linguistics II: LING 5802
For those interested in voice recognition or speech production:
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Phonetic Theory: LING 5101
- Laboratory Phonology: LING 5102
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Linguistics for Language Learning: LING 2501
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Social Justice: LING 3605
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Phonology: LING 4300 [core course option]
- Linguistics for Language Learning: LING 2501
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language and Advertising: LING 2367.02
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Language Endangerment and Language Death: LING 3902
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
- Field Methods I: LING 5551
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics: LING 5601
- Languages in Contact: LING 5651
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language and Computers: LING 3802
- Psycholinguistics I: LING 5701
- Cognitive Models of Language: LING 5702
- Introduction to Cognitive Science: LING 5612
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language and Formal Reasoning: LING 2001
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Ethics of Language Technology: LING 3803
- Linguistics and the Scientific Method: LING 4052
- Semantic Theory I: LING 5401
- Semantic Theory II: LING 5402
- Psycholinguistics I: LING 5701
- Introduction to Cognitive Science: LING 5612
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Psycholinguistics I: LING 5701
- Cognitive Models of Language: LING 5702
- Introduction to Cognitive Science: LING 5612
Particular interest in sound:
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Analyzing the Sounds of Language: LING 2051
- Phonetic Theory: LING 5101
Particular interest in language and culture:
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.: LING 3601
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and the Black Experience: LING 4601
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602
Particular interest in language disorders:
- Syntax: LING 4200 [core course option]
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Psycholinguistics I: LING 5701
- Phonetics: LING 4100 [core course option]
- Linguistic Meaning: LING 4400 [core course option]
- Language and Gender: LING 3606
- Language and Advertising: LING 2367.02
- Language Across Cultures: LING 3603
- Language and Social Justice: LING 3605
- Language and the Mind: LING 3701/3701H
- Language and Belonging in the U.S.: LING 4602