Graduate Minor

As of March 2, 2016, the Program is pleased to offer a Graduate Minor in Linguistics.

Candidates for the graduate minor in Linguistics must take 12 credits (four 3-credit courses) of LING rubric classes, or classes with other rubrics approved by the LING director. One or more of the courses must be taken at the 7000 level. All courses at the 4000 level must be taken for graduate credit.

Introductory Courses

Candidates for the graduate minor in Linguistics who enter the program without having taken an introductory course must take one of the following introductory courses in linguistics.

Select no more than one course from the following list:

  • LING 4710/ENGL 4710 Introduction to Linguistics
  • FREN 4014 Introduction to French Linguistics
  • LING 4716 /ENGL 4716 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
  • LING 4005 /SPAN 4005 Structure of Spanish

Core Courses

One of the courses should be a core course in linguistics. 

Select from:

  • LING 4062/COMD 4062 Spanish Phonetics
  • LING 4150/COMD 4150 Phonetics
  • LING4713/ENGL 4713   Syntax
  • LING 4714/ENGL 4714 Phonology
  • LING 4715/ENGL 4715 Semantics

Rubric Courses

Two additional courses can be chosen from the list below. 

Select from:

LING rubric courses

  • LING 4002 /SPAN 4010 History of the Spanish Language
  • LING 4010 /PHIL 4010 Symbolic Logic II
  • LING 4060 /ANTH 4060 Language and Culture
  • LING 4064/FREN 4064 /ANTH 4064/ Pidgins and Creoles
  • LING 4153/ COMD 4153 Acoustics
  • LING 4310 /ENGL 4310 Studies in Language
  • LING 4380/ COMD 4380 / Language Development in Children
  • LING 4711 /ENGL 4711 History of the English Language
  • LING 4712 /ENGL 4712 Roots of English
  • LING 4720/ENGL 4720 Second language acquisition
  • LING 4750 Independent Research in Speech Science or Linguistics
  • LING 4914/ PHIL 4914 Philosophy of Language
  • LING 7060/ANTH 7060 Conversation and Discourse
  • LING 7712/ENGL 7712 Topics in Historical Linguistics
  • LING 7713/ENGL 7713 Topics in Syntax and Semantics
  • LING 7714/ENGL 7714 Topics in Sociolinguistics
  • LING 7715/ENGL 7715 Topics in Language Acquisition
  • LING 7750 /COMD 7750 Special Topics in Linguistics
  • LING 7752 /COMD 7752 Seminar in Linguistics
  • LING 7754/COMD7754/PSYC 7754 Psycholinguistics
  • LING 7755/COMD 7755 English for Speakers of Other Languages
  • LING 7756/COMD 7756 Independent Research: Phonetics and Linguistics
  • LING 7909 Selected Topics in Anthropology **Must have linguistic topic
  • LING 7910/PHIL 7910 Seminar **Must have linguistic topic
  • LING 7962/ANTH 7962 Field Methods in Linguistics
  • LING 7999/ANTH 7999 Research in Anthropology **Must have linguistic topic

Other rubric courses

  • ANTH 4082 Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 4997 Special Topics in Anthropology **Must have linguistic topic
  • ANTH 7760 Readings in Creolization
  • COMD 4382 Basic Language Disorders of Children
  • COMD 7381 Language and Learning Disorders
  • COMD 7880 Advanced Seminar in Language Disorders
  • ENGL 7111 Forms of early English
  • FREN 4001 History of the French Language
  • FREN 4015 Advanced French Phonetics
  • FREN 4016 Applied French Linguistics
  • FREN 4065 Louisiana French
  • FREN 7962 Special Topics in French Linguistics
  • FREN 7980 Seminar in French Linguistics
  • SPAN 4063 Applied Spanish Linguistics
  • SPAN 4917 Independent Research in Spanish or Spanish-American Linguistics (1-3)
  • SPAN 7980 Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics
  • SPAN 7982 Spanish Language Variation
  • SPAN 7983 Spanish Language Acquisition
  • SPAN 7984 Spanish in the United States
  • SPAN 7985 Research in Hispanic Linguistics

 

 

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