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A major in linguistics provides students with a broad background in the structure and use of human language. Linguistics students learn how to use analytical tools proper to the study of language components, such as speech sounds, word formation, and sentence structure. They also become familiar with a variety of methods for investigating the function and significance of language in human affairs....
Why Study Linguistics? Studying linguistics is not a matter of studying many languages. Linguistics is a theoretical discipline with ties to such areas as cognitive psychology, philosophy, logic, computer science, and anthropology. Nonetheless, knowing particular languages (e.g., Spanish or Japanese) in some depth can enhance understanding of the general properties of human language. Not surprisingly then, many students of linguistics owe their initial...
Description: Humanities is the integrative study of ideas, values, society, and the arts. Under this major, students can choose specific tracks in Literature, Writing, Linguistics, or Philosophy.
What types of students succeed in this program? Students who enjoy thinking, discussion, art, creativity, who are concerned with culture will all thrive in this program. This major gives a broad and flexible base that equips students for life. In addition,...
The Linguistics major prepares individuals to serve as translators in a variety of capacities. Included in this are such areas as surveying cultural groups to determine a translation strategy, Bible translation, and translation of Christian materials.
The interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics offers courses to prepare students
(1) for graduate study in theoretical and applied linguistics and
(2) for careers in linguistics research, the teaching of linguistics, and applied linguistics, such as lexicography and the teaching of English as a second language....
The mission of the Duke University undergraduate program in Linguistics is to provide students with a multifaceted learning experience founded on the application and development of complex forms of reasoning and analysis. This learning experience is intended to confer a strong basis of knowledge in the study of theoretical and applied linguistics and the world's languages. Also, it will imbue each student with the ability to integrate, evaluate and...
Linguistics students come from a variety of different backgrounds and have diverse professional aims. In recent years, Linguistics minors have pursued majors in Anthropology, Biology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Political Science, Religion, Russian, Sociology, and Spanish, to name just a few.
Students with undergraduate concentrations in linguistics can prepare for graduate study in Linguistics, Psychology, Anthropology, and numerous other fields....
The Bachelor of Arts degree Linguistics is designed to develop students' knowledge and analysis of language phenomena, to challenge students' critical and analytical skills through exploring in small seminars various aspects of syntax, semantics, phonetics/phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. The undergraduate typically begins a major by taking the Introduction to Linguistics course. Junior...
Linguistics, the scientific study of language, is perhaps the ultimate interdisciplinary enterprise, cutting across the humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences. Since it is not taught in high school, most undergraduates, including many future Linguistics concentrators, only "discover" linguistics after they come to college. Some are intrigued by the prospect of discovering formal rules to model a...
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