Undergraduate Program
Majors
Linguistics
Linguistics is an undergraduate interdisciplinary program with links to the social sciences, education, and the humanities. The major provides students with work in the formal structure, the social contexts, and the history of languages. Requirements of the program fall into two sets.
First, students must choose 18 hours from the core courses offered by various departments (English, GREAL, Spanish, and Computer Science and Systems Analysis).
Second, they must choose another 28-33 hours from a longer list of courses drawn from Teacher Education, Anthropology, Mathematics, and the foreign language departments, as well as those listed above.
Finally, the student can take any course above the 300-level taught in a foreign language.
For further information, contact
Director of Linguistics
Jacquelyn Rahman
327 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513.529.5262
rahmanj@muohio.edu
Requirements for the Linguistics major and links to course descriptions are listed below.
Major Requirements
(44-52 semester hours)
Core Courses (16-18 semester hours)
Both of these:
- CSA 151 Computers, Computer Science, and Society (3)
- Introduction to Linguistics (4) (ATH 309, ENG 303, SPN 303 or GER 309)
Three courses from these:
- CSA 174 Structured Programming and Computer Algorithms (3)
- CSA 473 Automata, Formal Languages, and Computability (3)
- ENG 301 History of the English Language (4)
- ENG 302 Structure of Modern English (4)
- ENG 405 Advanced Linguistics (3)
- ENG 406 Discourse Analysis: Speech Acts in Context (3)*
- SPN 443 Spanish Phonology and Syntax (3)
- SPN 444 Spanish Dialectology (3)
- SPN 445 History of Spanish Language (3)
- GER 471 Applied German Linguistics (3)*
* Capstone course
Related Courses I (13-15 semester hours)
Five courses from these. No more than two courses may be taken from one department. Courses not counted in the Core Courses may be applied.
- ATH 265 Language and Culture (3)
- COM 337 Intercultural Communication (3)
- Introduction to Microcomputers (3)
- CSA 274 Data Structures (3)
- CSA 283 Fundamentals of Data Communication (3)
- CSA 474 Language, Interface, and Their Processors (3)
- CSA 486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3)
- ENG 201 Language Awareness (3)
- ENG 202 Varieties of English: Dialect Diversity and Language (3)
- Eng 410 Topics in Linguistics
- FRE 341 Conversation and Current Events in France
- FRE 361 French Pronunciation
- Topics in Linguistics (3)
- Pronunciation of German (2)
- GER 331 German Grammar (3)
- PSY 374 Psychology of Language and Thought (3)
- SPA 122,123 Sign Language I, II (SPA 122,123 count as one course) (1,1)
- SPA 223 Language Development (3)
- SPA 334 Phonetics (3)
- SPN 311 Grammar Review and Composition (3)
- SPN 312 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (3)
- SPN 408, 409 Intermediate Spanish Composition (3, 3)
- SPN 446 Second Language Acquisition: Spanish (3)
- Advanced Spanish Composition (3)
Related Courses II (15-19 semester hours)
Five courses from these. No more than two courses may be taken from one department. Courses not counted in Related Courses I may be applied.
- ATH 425 Ethnographic Field Methods (3)
- Introduction to Communication Research (3)
- COM 335 Rhetorical Theory in Western Thought (3)
- COM 434 Non-Verbal Communication (3)
- EDT 333 Teaching Foreign Language K-12, I (3)
- EDT 334 Teaching Foreign Language K-12, II (3)
- MTH 483 Introduction to Formal Systems and Mathematical Logic (3)
- PHL 273 Formal Logic (4)
- PHL 373 Symbolic Logic (4)
- PSY 271 Cognitive Psychology (3)
- PSY 372 Learning and Cognition (4)
- PSY 470 Seminar in Cognition (3)
- SOC 262 Research Methods (4)
- Applied Sociological Research (3)
- Any course above 300 level and taught in a foreign language