College of Letters and Science
Linguistics Minor
Minor
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Students can use this minor to prepare for a variety of career opportunities, including software programming and artificial intelligence, teaching language, acting or training actors, writing, editing, publishing, translation and interpreter work,
law, and advertising. Students will focus on the core subsystems of language, including:
Sounds found across all world languages
(phonetics)
Rules found in the sound system of a specific language
(phonology)
Methods for constructing words in a language
(morphology)
Language-specific sentence structure
(syntax)
Word and sentence meanings
(semantics)
Situation-specific meanings
(pragmatics)
Ways in which larger texts are created
(discourse analysis)
These subsystems are then studied in relation to concerns such as how children acquire language, how language varies across populations, and how language both structures and is structured by human thought.
The minor is administered by the Department of English. It consists of 24 credits.
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