Honors Advisor
Cynthia Clopper, clopper.1@osu.edu
306 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave.
Office Hours: TBA
Honors students majoring in linguistics are expected to follow a course of study which is more challenging than the regular major, including a more specific analytic prerequisite (higher level logic or statistics), a 33 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 33 credits, excluding prerequisites)
Coursework
A. Prerequisite Course Work (9 credits)
-- These courses do not count toward the minimum number of hours required in the major.
-- Only the introductory course must be completed before starting the major.
1. Introductory course in linguistics: (3 credits)
- Linguistics (H)2000 or 5000
2. Language requirement (one of the following): (3 credits)
- Advanced foreign language course beyond 1103 (preferably at the 2000 level and taught in the foreign language)
- Linguistics 4550, 5551, or 5552 (Field Methods)
- This requirement may also be satisfied by 3 credit hours at any level in a second not closely related language, by permission.
3. Analytic prerequisite (one of the following):(3 credits)
- Linguistics 2001, (H)2051, H2052, or 5001
- Philosophy 2500
- Mathematics 2366
- Statistics 1350 or 1450
- Psychology 2220
B. Major Core Courses (18 credits)
1. Required courses
-- These courses are required and may be taken in any order.
-- It is advised that you take at least one of these courses in your first or second year.
- Phonetics: Linguistics 4100
- Syntax: Linguistics 4200
- Phonology: Linguistics 4300
- Linguistic Meaning: Linguistics 4400
2. Two courses from the following list:
-- Choose one course each from two different areas.
- Historical Linguistics: Linguistics 3901 or 5901
- Sociolinguistics: Linguistics 3601, (H)3602, 3603, or 5601
- Psycholinguistics: Linguistics (H)3701 or 5701
- Field Methods: Linguistics 4550 or 5551 (may not be used concurrently to satisfy the language prerequisite)
C. Linguistics 4780 Undergraduate Research Seminar in Linguistics (3 credits)
-- This course should be completed at least one year before graduation.
-- Prerequisite: at least 1 4000-level course
D. Two-course Sequence, from among the following (6 credits)
-- Other sequences can be selected with approval from the linguistics honors advisor.
-- These courses cannot be used to also satisfy a linguistics elective course.
- Computational Linguistics: Linguistics 5801, 5802
- Sociolinguistics: Linguistics 5601, 5602
- Field Methods: Linguistics 4550, 5551 or 5552
- Historical Linguistics: 3901, 5901
- Phonetics: Linguistics 5101, 5102
- Phonology: Linguistics 5301, 5302
- Psycholinguistics: Linguistics (H)3701, 5701 or 5702
- Semantics: Linguistics 5401, 5402
- Syntax: Linguistics 5201, 5202
E. Two elective courses not used to satisfy requirements a-d (6 credits)
-- Up to 3 credit hours of independent study directed towards a coherent topic, supervised by a faculty member, may be used towards fulfilling the elective requirement.
The proposed research and faculty supervisor must be approved in advance with the honors advisor.
- Language & Formal Reasoning: 2001
- Analyzing the Sounds of Language: (H)2051
- Theories of Linguistics: H2052
- Language, Sex and Gender in American Culture: (H)2367.01
- Language and Advertising: 3367.02
- Words and Meaning: 3401
- Introduction to American Indigenous Languages: 3501
- Constructed Languages: 3502
- Language, Race & Ethnicity in the U.S.: 3601
- Languages and Social Identity in the U.S.: (H)3602
- Languages across Cultures: 3603
- Language and the Mind: (H)3701
- Codes and Code-Breaking: 3801
- Language and Computers: (H)3802
- Language Evolution and Language Change: 3901
- Morphology: 4350, 5351
- Field Methods: 4550, 5551, 5552
- Language Endangerment and Language Death: 4597.01
- Semantics: 5001, 5401, 5402
- Technical Tools: 5050
- Quantitative Methods: 5051
- Phonetics: 5101, 5102
- Syntax: 5201, 5202
- Phonology: 5301, 5302
- Sociolinguistics: 5601, 5602, 5603, 5651
- Cognitive Science: 5612, 5891
- Informal Science Outreach: 5700
- Psycholinguistics: 5701, 5702
- Computational Linguistics: 5801, 5802
- Historical Linguistics: 5901
Some possible configurations of elective linguistics courses keyed to related areas:
- Anthropological Linguistics: 2367.01, 3602 or 3603, 4550 or 5551 or 5552, 5601
- Computational Linguistics: 5801, 5802
- Computer and Information Science: 5001, 5612, 5801, 5802
- Education: 3602, 3701, 5701
- Electrical Engineering: 4100, 5101, 5102; or 5001, 5801, 5802
- Foreign Language: 5101, 5102; or 5201, 5202; or 5301, 5302; 5901
- Philosophy: 5001, 5401, 5402, 5612
- Political Science: 2367.01, 3602 or 3603, 5601
- Psychology: 3701, 5612, 5701
- Sociology: 2367.01, 3602 or 3603, 5601
- Speech and Hearing Science: 3701, 5101, 5102, 5701
- Women's Studies: 2367.01, 3602 or 3603, 5601, 5602