LEARNING GOALS:

• Examine the structural components of sound, form, and meaning, and the precise interplay between them.
• Interact with the field of linguistics through a series of foundation courses in linguistics theory and methodology.
• Stress analytical and argumentation skills, preparing students for future pursuits in any field to which such skills are essential, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, computational linguistics, sociology, and a anthropology.
• Apply theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of linguistic data, particularly in forming and testing hypotheses, and arrive at conclusions that the data and arguments support.
• Understand how language influences the way we interact with each other and with the larger world around us.
• Investigate how people acquire their knowledge about language, how this knowledge interacts with other cognitive processes and how it varies across speakers and geographic regions.