Department: Linguistics

Code Name Description
LING 105 American Sign Language Introduction to basic American Sign Language (ASL) skills and to Deaf history and Deaf culture. Covers fingerspelling, basic vocabulary and grammatical structures, and the development of visual receptive and gestural expressive skills. Designed for s...
LING 203 Introductory Linguistics General introduction to the study of language as a medium of cognition and perception and as a social institution. The course focuses on phonetics; word formation; historical linguistics; syntax; semantics; cultural assumptions coded in texts; variat...
LING 250 Introduction to Syntax Analysis of how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. Translation of syntactic structures into symbolic systems; modification of systems to model increasingly complex data. Requires no mathematics.
LING 252 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics Familiarizes students with the Indo-European language family, its history, its textual artefacts, and the cultures that produced them; also introduces students to the methods used by working Indo-Europeanists. Readings, lectures, and discussions cove...
LING 254 Intro to Phonology Analyze and model a type of unconscious knowledge that humans have, namely their ability to manipulate sounds as they speak and apprehend sounds as they listen. The analysis and modeling are done within a formal symbolic system.
LING 297 Selected Topics Selected topics in linguistics.
LING 390 Independent Study Topics independently pursued under supervision of faculty member.