Director: Professor Sandra Levey (Speech & Theatre Building, Room 217)
Advisory Board: Coordinator, Associate Professor Richard Blot (Journalism, Communication, and Theatre), Associate Professor Nathalie Bailey (English), Assistant Professors Bertrade Banoum-Ngo-Ngijol (African and African American Studies), Barbara Jacobson (Sociology), Gisela Jia (Psychology), Sandra Levey (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences), Zelda Newman (Languages and Literature)
Participating Departments: Anthropology, English, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Computer Science, Philosophy, Sociology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
The interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics offers courses to prepare students for (1)graduate study in theoretical and applied linguistics and (2)careers in the teaching of linguistics, and applied linguistics, including the teaching of English as a second language.
PROGRAMS
Students in this major shall arrange their programs in consultation with the Program Director.
Honors in Linguistics may be conferred on that student who has satisfied the College requirement for interdepartmental honors at the time of graduation and has completed the honors tutorial LNG 481 with a grade of A.
*Courses preceded by an asterisk are not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
LNG 150: The Phenomena of Language. 3 hours, 3 credits. The nature of language —its forms and uses. A survey of linguistic analysis. Language as data in psychology, anthropology, sociology, and other social sciences.
LNG 160 (SPV 246): Introduction to Linguistics. 3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of linguistic science, with special attention to descriptive and applied linguistics.
*LNG 334: Historical Linguistics. 3 hours, 3 credits. PREREQ: Either LNG 160 (SPV 246) or Program Director's permission.
*LNG 335: Sociolinguistics: The Sociology of Language. 3 hours, 3 credits. PREREQ: Either LNG 160 (SPV 246) and LNG 245 (SPV 245) or Program Director's permission.
LNG 337: Conversational and Discourse Analysis. 3 hours, 3 credits. Spoken and written conversational and discourse analysis with an overview of various psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches. Application to language teaching and research. PREREQ: LNG 160 (SPV 246).
LNG (AAS)339: African Languages. 3 hours, 3 credits. African languages and language families, their characteristics and development, including pidgin and Creole languages. Analysis of relations of language to ethnicity and identity. The contributions of African languages to general linguistic theory.
LNG 340: Pragmatics. 3 hours, 3 credits. Language use relative to language structure and context. Theoretical perspectives on speech acts, presupposition, implicature, deixis, reference, definiteness, performatives, and their application to human communication and language instruction. PREREQ: LNG 160 (SPV 246).
*LNG 444: Readings in Linguistics. 3 hours, 3 credits. PREREQ: Instructor's permission. RECOMMENDED: LNG 160 (SPV 246).
LNG 481: Honors Tutorial. One semester, 3 credits (maximum 6 credits). Individual study under faculty guidance leading to completion of an honors paper. PREREQ: Program Director's permission.
Course |
Title |
Credits |
LNG 150: |
The Phenomena of Language |
3 |
LNG 160 (SPV 246): |
Introduction to Linguistics |
3 |
LNG 185 (CMP 166): |
Introduction to Computer Programming |
4 |
LNG 228 (ANT 228): |
Language and Culture |
3 |
LNG 240 (COM 301): |
Language and Communication |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 245: |
Articulatory Phonetics |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 247: |
Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 248: |
Acoustic Phonetics |
3 |
LNG 266 (PHI 230): |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
LNG 267 (PHI 231): |
Language, Meaning, and Knowledge |
3 |
LNG (ANT) 326 : |
Anthropological Linguistics |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 312: |
Bilingualism |
3 |
LNG 318 (ENG 304): |
The Structure of Modern English |
3 |
LNG 319 (ENG 305): |
History of the English Language |
3 |
LNG 321 (SPV 322): |
Introduction to Grammar |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 323: |
Introduction to Phonology |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 324: |
Semantics |
3 |
LNG (SPV) 325: |
The Contrastive Analysis of English with Other Languages |
3 |
LNG 328 (SPV 329): |
Social & Regional Dialects of English |
3 |
LNG 230 (SPV 221): |
Language Acquisition |
3 |
LNG 334: |
Historical Linguistics |
3 |
LNG 335: |
Sociolinguistics |
3 |
LNG 346 (PHI 351): |
Logic and Language |
3 |
LNG 418 (ENG 451): |
Studies in Linguistics |
3* |
LNG 444: |
Readings in Linguistics |
3* |
LNG 446 (PHI 450): |
Topics in Logic, the Philosophy of Language, or the Philosophy of Mathematics |
3* |
LNG 481: |
Honors Tutorial |
3* |
* Maximum of 6 credits allowed.