Degree Plan

Major in Linguistics

I. Twelve semester hours of linguistics core courses:

LING 3310 Introduction to Language & Linguistics

LING 4302 Semantics & Pragmatics

LING 4303 Contemporary Syntax

LING 4305 Phonetics & Phonology

II. Any twelve semester hours from the following list of electives:

LING 3311 English Words

LING 3315 Language in Society

LING 3319 Language & Culture

LING 4311* Special Topics in Linguistics

LING 4312 Old English Language

LING 4313 1st Language Acquisition

LING 4314 History of the English Language

LING 4318 2nd Language Acquisition/ESL

LING 4319 American English Dialects

LING 4V20 Independent Study in Linguistics

*LING 4311 may be repeated once for credit toward the Linguistics degree with a change in topic and consent of the instructor

III. Three additional semester hours selected from II above or from the following courses:

LING 3312 Modern English Grammar

TED 4312 Methods of teaching English as a Second Language

SPA 4315 Methods of teaching Foreign Language (also FRE 4315 & GER 4315)

PHI 4345 Intermediate Logic

PHI 4353 Philosophy of Language

PSY 3311 Cognitive Psychology (prerequisites: NSC 1306 & MTH 1321)

IV. Required Courses in Other Fields:

Complete any four courses from the following less-commonly studied languages at the 1000- or 2000-levels:

ARA, ARB, CHI, GKB, GKC, HEB, JPN, KOR, RUS, SAN, SWA, American Sign Language (CSD 1405, 1406, 2301, 2302), or from the list below.

No more than two upper-level courses with the same prefix may count toward this requirement. No course counting toward the Arts and Sciences B.A. language requirement may also count toward this requirement.

ARA/REL 4303 (Aramaic); ARB 3301 (Advanced Arabic Grammar); CHI 3301 (Chinese Conversation, Composition, and Readings I); CHI 3302 (Chinese Conversation, Composition, and Readings II); CLA 4360 (Indo-European Language and Culture); GKB/GKC 3351 (Advanced New Testament Greek); JPN 3301 (Japanese Reading Development); JPN 3302 (Japanese Reading Skills); JPN 3303 (Japanese Conversation and Composition); LING 3V99 (Special Studies in Less-Commonly Studied Languages) REL 3309 (Advanced Biblical Hebrew I); REL 3310 (Advanced Biblical Hebrew II); REL 3320 (Advanced Classical and Biblical Greek I); REL 3321 (Advanced Classical and Biblical Greek II); RUS 3301 (Russian Conversation and Composition); RUS 3302 (Russian Reading Development); RUS 3310 (Russian Phonetics and Phonology); SYR/REL 4304 (Syriac).

The BA degree requires 36 hours of 3000- or 4000-level courses, which is the average number of hours required by most majors; however, you will only take 27 hours of 3000- and 4000-level courses in satisfying the LING degree requirements. Therefore, a LING major must take an additional 9 hours of 3000- or 4000-level courses to satisfy the BA requirements. These hours can be in pursuit of a second major, a minor, or just for pleasure.

Minor in Linguistics