The program is offered by . The student will gain a substantial familiarity with several languages and types of linguistic structure and will become conversant with the formal theories of linguistic analysis and the historical study of language.Linguistics is available as a minor through the English department or as a specialization option in the humanities degree program.?

Linguistics is available as a minor through the English department or as a specialization option in the humanities degree program.

Strengths of the program

• Courses introduce you to several languages and types of linguistic structure, formal theories of linguistic analysis, and the historical study of language.
• Gain a broad liberal education in literature, anthropology, mathematics, and philosophy around a core of language.
• General studies is for students who have varied interests that cut across the usual departmental boundaries and wish to play a major role in deciding on a suitable curriculum of study.

Career

Linguists study a range of aspects of language, including the sounds used in human languages and how they are organized into systems in specific languages; the internal structure of words, sentences and discourses; how meaning is conveyed by language; how languages vary across groups; how languages change over time; how people use language to accomplish things; how language reflects and transmits social values and social structures.