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To complete the minor in linguistics, the student must consult with a member of the advisory board and/or the director to identify a course of study that includes five courses from the list below. The five-course minor will normally include one of the SP courses listed in Section 1 and four courses from Section 2, with restrictions as outlined below. The courses can be taken in any sequence:
Section 1.
CORE SP150 Linguistics: Data, Theories and Experiments
CORE SP125 How We Acquire Language
CORE SP140 Language and Cognition
Section 2.
Four additional courses selected from among those listed below, subject to the following conditions:
a. No more than two of the four courses can be taken in the same department.
b. At least two courses must be at the 300- or 400-level. Only one of these two courses can be an Advanced Language course.
In other words, all four courses may come from the Other Courses list below, with two of them at the 300- or 400-level; or one of the four courses may be an Advanced Language course, and the other three from the Other Courses list, with one of those three at the 300- or 400-level.
Advanced language courses
CHIN 303 Films and Broadcasts
CHIN 405 Reading Chinese Newspapers
JAPN 301 Advanced Japanese I
JAPN 401 Readings in Japanese I
FREN 361 Advanced Grammar, Style, and Conversation
FREN 401 Stylistics
ITAL 301 Advanced Grammar and Composition
SPAN 361 Advanced Composition and Stylistics
SPAN 362 Advanced Composition and Stylistics for Native Speakers
GERM 340 Conversation and Composition
GERM 341 Advanced Conversation and Composition
GREK 301, 302, 310, 320, 321, 330, 350
LATN 321, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 410, 420, 430, 440, 450, 460
RUSS 303 Language and Fiction
RUSS 306 Advanced Russian
Advanced language courses taken abroad on a study group also qualify, with approval by the director.
Other courses
JAPN 411 Topics in Japanese linguistics
ENGL 301 History of the English Language
ENGL 304 Introduction to Early Medieval Languages of Britain and Ireland
PHIL 225 Symbolic Logic I
PHIL 411 Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language
SPAN 475 Spanish as a Global Language
SPAN 476 Linguistic History of Spain
COSC 202 Introduction to Symbolic Programming
COSC 430 Artificial Intelligence
PSYC 355 Language and Thought
PSYC 250 Human Cognition
SOAN 357 The Origins of Writing
WRIT 346 Language, Race and Ethnicity in the United States
WRIT 347 Language and Gender
Students pursuing the linguistics minor are strongly encouraged to undertake a capstone experience. This might consist of an independent study, a thesis leading to departmental honors, or both. In addition to the advisory board, the following faculty can supervise the capstone experience:
Bruce Hansen (psychology)
Doug Johnson (psychology)
John Gallucci (Romance languages and literatures)
Alice Nakhimovsky (Russian and Jewish studies)
Jay Swain (music)
Maura Tumulty (philosophy)
Barbara Regenspan (educational studies)