Upon completing the BA degree with a major in Linguistics, students will be able to:

• Identify and define the main approaches for researching language structure and use at all levels (sounds, words, grammar, meaning, social/cultural interaction), as well as be able to evaluate critically and apply the primary concepts, vocabularies, methods, and theories in their own work.
• Gain an appreciation of the diversity of language and how it changes over time. They will be able to analyze the diversity of sounds and grammar in the world’s languages. They will also understand the diversity of regionally- socially and ethnically-defined varieties within a single language. Students will be able to explain why this diversity is relevant to everyday life and how it is crucial to fields both inside and outside of linguistics.
• Understand language in its relation to cognition, identity formation, culture, and society, and the systematic relationships among them.