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The major in linguistics consists of ten courses selected from the list below. The student should take at least one course in each of the following areas: phonology, syntax, language history, and language and thought. As courses are distributed among various departments, the student must consult with the Program Adviser in selecting courses to fulfill this distribution requirement. No language courses taken to fulfill the college proficiency requirement may be counted toward the major.
Students majoring in linguistics who elect to graduate with a B.S. degree must have credit for two mathematics courses: a) one calculus course, MATH 1210 or equivalent; and b) one statistics course MATH 1230, or a higher level class in statistics.
Capstone courses within the major include:
- ANTH 3310 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
- ANTH 3670 Language and Its Acquisition
- ANTH 4930 Languages of Louisiana
- ANTH 6400 Language and Culture
- ANTH 6420 Linguistic Field Methods
- LING 4120 Brain and Language
- LING 4850 Proseminar in Linguistics
In addition to courses listed here in cooperating departments, students may elect to take language courses to broaden their linguistic base.
As courses are distributed among various departments, the student must consult with the Program Adviser in selecting courses to fulfill this distribution requirement.
Courses
- ANTH 3150 - Cognitive Anthropology
- ANTH 3290 - The Nature of Language
- ANTH 3300 - History of Writing
- ANTH 3310 - Introduction to Historical Linguistics
- ANTH 3400 - Language and Culture
- ANTH 3440 - Dialectology
- ANTH 3590 - Introduction to Syntax
- ANTH 3630 - Linguistic Phonetics
- ANTH 3640 - Studies in Phonology
- ANTH 3650 - Morphology
- ANTH 3660 - Discourse Analysis: Pragmatics of Language Use
- ANTH 3670 - Language and Its Acquisition
- ANTH 3680 - Language and Power
- ANTH 3690 - Language and Gender
- ANTH 4930 - Languages of Louisiana
- ANTH 6420 - Linguistic Field Methods
- ANTH 6700 - Spoken Nahuatl
- ANTH 6720 - Spoken Yoruba
- ANTH 6800 - Spoken Yucatecan Maya
- ANTH 6810 - Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs
Courses Offered by Other Departments
- ASTJ 1010 - Beginning Japanese I
- ASTJ 1020 - Beginning Japanese II
- ASTJ 2030 - Intermediate Japanese I
- ASTJ 2040 - Intermediate Japanese II
- FREN 3140 - French Phonetics
- FREN 4100 - French in Louisiana
- FREN 4160 - Translation Theory and Practice
- FREN 6110 - Field Research on French in Louisiana
- FREN 6210 - History of the French Language
- FREN 6910 - Independent Study for French Linguistics
- GERM 3360 - Translation: Theory and Practice of an Impossible Art
- HBRW 1010 - Elementary Hebrew I
- HBRW 1020 - Elementary Hebrew II
- LING 3010 - Semantics, the Study of Meaning
- LING 3430 - Semantics of Natural Language
- LING 3890 - Service Learning
- LING 4110 - Brain and Language / NSCI 4110 Brain and Language
- MATH 1110 - Probability and Statistics I
- PHIL 1210 - Elementary Symbolic Logic
- PHIL 3110 - Contemporary European Philosophy
- PHIL 3430 - Semantics of Natural Language
- PHIL 3800 - Language and Thought
- PHIL 6060 - Advanced Symbolic Logic
- PHIL 6180 - Mental Representation
- PHIL 6620 - Philosophical Logic
- PSYC 6380 - Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYC 6385 - Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
- SOCI 3030 - Introduction to Research Design
- SOCI 3040 - Introduction to Research Analysis
- SOCI 6440 - Language Behavior and Communication
- SPAN 4260 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
- SPAN 4270 - Iberoamerican Dialectology
- SPAN 6010 - Methods of Teaching Spanish and Portuguese
- SPAN 6060 - Bilingualism in the Hispanic World
- SPAN 6510 - History of the Spanish Language
- THEA 3090 - Stage Speech I