19 Linguistics Course Programs

Do you love the scientific study of languages and the written works of literature? Language allows us to express our thoughts, interrogate our beliefs, establish bonds with others and gain insight into who we are. By selecting a few semester courses, students will develop a particular awareness of language in all its splendour and will become astutely mindful of the important role that language plays in the life of an individual and a society. The purpose of these courses are to produce students who can demonstrate a critical understanding and skill in the fields of language, literacies, and literature as well as research in the field of educational linguistics with the purpose of engaging positively with language diversity issues encountered in today’s society. Join the Semester Study Abroad Programme today! Choose from a variety of bachelor and master’s courses, across a wide range of disciplines for international credit transfer.

This program aims at exploring a wide range of topics in the Portuguese language, Brazilian literature, literature in English, Comparative literature, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies. the courses will focus on issues such

Get a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

The scientific study of language, encompassing structure, meaning, and use in contemporary societies as well as historical and evolutionary perspectives on human language. Students develop a basic understanding of the social and cognitive dimensions of language and the analytic tools of modern linguistics. Such a foundation has relevance for a wide range of studies, including cognition, artificial intelligence, comparative literature, language teaching, race and ethnic studies, and international studies. 5 units.

Computational Linguistics lies at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. The field focuses on how computers and algorithms can be used to model the sounds, grammar, and meaning of human language. Professionals and researchers in computational linguistics apply computational and statistical techniques to linguistic data, in order to answer challenging questions in linguistics research and to build useful computer software and websites that intelligently process information in the form of human language.

Our Ph.D. and M.A. programs ready students for opportunities in academia, private industry, public service, and more. We offer coursework, laboratory experience, and research supervision in theoretical, experimental, descriptive, and applied linguistics. Our students master the discipline of linguistics in its broadest sense, acquire knowledge of a specialized area, and carry out independent research.

Linguistics is the study of language. Studying language enables us to understand the ways in which people encode their experience, communicate their sense of the world, transmit knowledge, and interact with each other. Linguistics investigates the range of patterning found in systems of sound, structure, and meaning in languages. The goal of linguistic study is both specific and general: Linguists attempt to describe the structure of specific languages in order to generate theories about universal characteristics of human language and to gain insight into the functioning of the human mind.

Because language is so fundamental to everything that we do, an understanding of linguistics is part of a well-rounded liberal arts education. In addition, the study of linguistics prepares students for careers and advanced work in fields such as anthropology, business, communications, computer science, education, English as a second language (ESL), foreign languages, journalism, neuroscience, speech and hearing sciences, philosophy, psychology, and other fields requiring analytical, communication, and research skills.

How many languages are there? What does knowing a language entail? How do people develop this ability? How is language stored in the brain? Why don’t we all speak the same? Why do languages change over time? How different is human language from forms of animal communication? Questions such as these are studied systematically in the field of linguistics.

Linguistics is the study of the remarkable human capacity to learn and use natural languages. Prominent questions include the nature of the systems of mental representation (both abstractly and neurologically characterized), how these representations arise, how they change, how they are written, and how languages are put to use in social and literary contexts.

Important Notice: This minor program is currently under review for approval within the integrated Commonwealth curriculum. Students who have previously declared this minor should follow the pre-integration sequence for program completion by working with their minor advisor. At this time, new minor declarations are not being accepted. Interested students are encouraged to monitor this website for status updates. This minor will enhance study within students' major areas of study by facilitating exploration of linguistics and its significance across disciplines, by offering opportunities to engage in linguistics-focused research and discussion, and by bringing together a cohort of faculty and students across campus who share a passion for language study.

The linguistics major/minor allows students to study the mental structures of language (phonology, syntax, semantics) and how people use language in everyday life to organize their social worlds. In doing this, our major provides training in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, writing and argumentation, and a variety of methods for rigorous investigation.

If you’ve always loved languages but thought 2, 3, or even 10 weren’t enough, you can have all of them and more through linguistics, the study of language (singular). You’ll learn how to describe and analyze sound patterns and the forms, functions, and meanings of words, on their own and when combined into phrases and sentences. Through these elements, linguists try to explain what in the human mind lets us not only utter what we think but also understand each other’s utterances, in our societies and across generations.

The Tri-co (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore) linguistics program brings together students and faculty interested in the scientific study of human language. Drawing on a broad range of faculty from three institutions, our program examines the structural components of sound, form, and meaning and the interplay between them. We are committed to giving our majors a strong foundation in the field and opportunities to explore its interdisciplinary aspects and promise in connection with areas such as psychology, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, sociology, and anthropology.

Phonology is a central area of research and study in the Linguistics program. Students are encouraged to describe understudied sound patterns, explore theoretical implications of common and uncommon sound patterns, understand sound patterns in terms of their phonetic bases and historical developments, and design experiments to better understand the nature of phonological knowledge and its relationship to morphology, syntax and semantics.