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Minor Requirements
To complete the minor in Linguistics, the student must consult with a member of the advisory committee and/or the director to identify a study path that includes five courses from the list below. The five-course minor will normally include one of the courses listed in section 1 and three or four courses from section 2, with restrictions as outlined below. The courses can be taken in any sequence:
Section 1 - Linguistics Foundations
At least one of the following courses
Section 2 - Electives
Three or Four additional courses selected from among those listed below, subject to the following conditions:
- No more than two courses can be taken in the same department.
- At least two courses must be at the 300 or 400 level. Three or four courses may come from the Other Courses listed below, with two of them at the 300 or 400 level; or one courseÌýmay be an advanced language course, and the other courses from the Other Courses list, with one of them at the 300 or 400 level. Only one course from the Other Courses list may be an independent study course.
Advanced Language Courses
Advanced language courses taken abroad on a study group also qualify with approval by the director.
- ARAB 301Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Arabic I
- ARAB 302Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Arabic II
- ARAB 401Ìý-ÌýTopics in Arabic Language and Culture I
- ARAB 402Ìý-ÌýTopics in Arabic Language and Culture II
- CHIN 303Ìý-ÌýFilms and Media
- CHIN 304Ìý-ÌýReadings in Social Issues
- CHIN 405Ìý-ÌýReading Chinese Newspapers
- CHIN 406Ìý-ÌýReadings in Modern Literature
- FREN 361Ìý-ÌýAdvanced French Composition, Grammar, and Conversation
- GERM 341Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Conversation and Composition (Study Group)
- GERM 351Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to German Literary Studies
- GERM 353Ìý-ÌýProseminar in German Studies
- GREK 301Ìý-ÌýGreek Tragedy
- GREK 302Ìý-ÌýAristophanes
- GREK 310Ìý-ÌýHomer
- GREK 320Ìý-ÌýGreek Historians
- GREK 321Ìý-ÌýThucydides
- GREK 350Ìý-ÌýPlato
- ITAL 361Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Grammar, Composition, and Conversation
- JAPN 301Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Japanese I
- JAPN 302Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Japanese II
- JAPN 401Ìý-ÌýReadings in Japanese I
- JAPN 402Ìý-ÌýReadings in Japanese II
- JAPN 455Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Grammar in Japanese
- LATN 340Ìý-ÌýRoman Oratory
- LATN 350Ìý-ÌýRoman Comedy
- LATN 360Ìý-ÌýRoman Love Poetry
- LATN 370Ìý-ÌýOvid
- LATN 380Ìý-ÌýThe Roman Novel
- LATN 450Ìý-ÌýCicero and the Roman Republic
- REST 303Ìý-ÌýRussian in Context
- REST 306Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Russian
- SPAN 361Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Composition and Stylistics
- LATN 430Ìý-ÌýHorace
Other Courses
- COSC 480Ìý-ÌýTopics in Computer Science : Natural Language ProcessingÌý
- ENGL 301Ìý-ÌýHistory of the English Language
- NEUR 355/PSYC 355Ìý-ÌýLanguage and Thought ÌýÌý
- PHIL 225Ìý-ÌýLogic I
- PHIL 342Ìý-ÌýPhilosophy of Language
- PSYC 250Ìý-ÌýHuman Cognition
- SPAN 475Ìý-ÌýSpanish as a Global Language
- SPAN 476Ìý-ÌýLinguistic History of Spain
- WRIT 210Ìý-ÌýThe Rhetoric of Style
- WRIT 346Ìý-ÌýHip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
Linguistics Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, etc.,Ìýplease visit theÌýLinguistics programÌýcatalogÌýpage.