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The Minor in Linguistics

All minors are required to take:

  • Ling 170D Introduction to Linguistics (Recent Syllabi: Spring 2009, Fall 2011)
  • 6 units of Theory classes, selected from this list of 3-unit classes:
  • Students must take two more courses, at least one of which must be numbered 300 or higher. These courses may be drawn from the above list of Theory classes, or from any of the following courses:
    • Ling 242 American Sign Language From a Psycholinguistic and Cultural Perspective (Syllabus: Spring 2012)
    • Ling 341 Linguistic Diversity in the United States
    • Ling 396 Linguistics Seminar
    • Ling 466 Second Language Acquisition
    • Ling 495 Senior Seminar in Linguistics
    • Ling 500 Independent Work in Linguistics
    • AFAS 210 The Linguistic Legacy of the African Slave Trade in Interdisciplinary Perspective
    • AFAS 368 Language and Society in Africa
    • Anthro 2151 Language, Culture, and Society
    • Classics 225D Latin & Greek in Current English
    • Educ 4315 Culture, Language, and the Education of Black Students
    • Phil 301G Symbolic Logic
    • Phil 4061 Topics in the Philosophy of Language
    • Phil 306G Philosophy of Language
    • Psych 4081 Topics in Psycholinguistics
    • Psych 358 Language Acquisition
    • Psych 433 Psychology of Language
    • Psych 4351 Reading and Reading Development
    • Span 370 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
    • Span 417 Spanish Phonetics, Phonology, and Dialectology
    • PACS 234  Introduction to Speech and Hearing Sciences and Disorders
    • PACS 401 Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing
    • PACS 433 Acoustical Phonetics and Speech Perception
    • PACS 434 Normal Language Development
    • PACS 436 Introduction to Manual Communication (2 credits)

All classes must be taken for a letter grade, and you must get a C− or better to apply it to your Linguistics minor. If you take a course pass/fail you cannot apply it to Linguistics, even if the professor swears you would have got a C−. Click here to view the list of linguistics and linguistics-related courses being offered this semester.

Interaction With Majors and Other Minors

If you wish to fulfill a Linguistics minor, you will in addition have a major and perhaps another minor. If the requirements for these other areas overlap with your Linguistics minor, the question arises as to whether they can double-count.

Your Linguistics Minor must include 12 units of classes that are not counted toward any other major or minor. Thus it is important that your Linguistics advisor knows what classes you intend to apply to them, so that this requirement is not violated. Note, however, that these rules mean that Linguistics will let you count one 3-unit class toward both Linguistics and a major or another minor. But be advised that just because Linguistics would let you double-count a course toward a Psychohistory major does not mean that the Psychohistory department has to let you do that.