School of Liberal Arts: Linguistics
2008-2009 Academic Year
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syntax, language history, and language and thought. As courses are distributed
among various departments, the student must consult with the Program Adviser in
selecting courses to fulfill this distribution requirement. No language courses
taken to fulfill the college proficiency requirement may be counted toward the
major.
BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN LINGUISTICS
Students majoring in linguistics may elect to graduate with either the B.A. or B.S.
degree. Those who choose to receive the B.S. degree must have credit for two
mathematics courses: a) one calculus course, MATH 121 or equivalent; and b)
one statistics course MATH 123, or a higher level class in statistics. Linguistics
majors who take less math or use Symbolic Logic as their fulfillment of the math
proficiency requirement would continue to receive the B.A.
ANTH 315 Cognitive Anthropology
ANTH 329 The Nature of Language
ANTH 330 History of Writing
ANTH 331 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
ANTH 340 Language and Culture
ANTH 344 Dialectology
ANTH 359 Introduction to Syntax
ANTH 363 Linguistic Phonetics
ANTH 364 Studies in Phonology
ANTH 365 Morphology
ANTH 366 Discourse Analysis: Pragmatics of Language Use
ANTH 367 Language and Its Acquisition
ANTH 368 Language and Power
ANTH 369 Language and Gender
ANTH 642 Linguistics Field Methods
ANTH 670 Spoken Nahuatl
ANTH 672 Spoken Yoruba
ANTH 680 Spoken Yucatecan Maya
ANTH 681 Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs
ANTH 682 Classical Yucatec
COURSES OFFERED BY OTHER DEPARTMENTS
ASTJ 101, 102 Beginning Japanese I, II
ASTJ 203, 204 Intermediate Japanese I, II
CPSC 350 Programming Languages
CPSC 466 Artificial Intelligence
FREN 314 French Phonetics
FREN 410 French in Louisiana
FREN 416 Translation Theory and Practice
FREN 611 Field Research on French in Louisiana
FREN 621 History of the French Language