The Linguistics Department offers two different majors as well as many ways to get involved in the department.
Overview
What is Linguistics?
All humans use language, and yet many of them have never heard of Linguistics as a field until college. Linguistics deals both with the study of particular languages and the search for general properties that are common to all languages.
Linguistics is about how language works: what’s in our heads, how we use it to communicate, why there are so many different languages, and how it can be modeled computationally.
Linguistics Major
Students can fulfill the breadth and depth requirement for this major in a variety of different ways.
Computing and Linguistics Major
We offer a B.A. and B.S. degree at a key intersection of computer science and linguistics.
Senior Essays
All Linguistics majors write a capstone essay in their senior year.
Get Involved!
Research and social events
Attending colloquia, lunch talks, and other department events is a good way to learn more about the field and topics you may not have studied in class. You can also join some of our labs and reading groups. Attending colloquia, lunch talks, and other department events is a good way to learn more about the field and topics you may not have studied in class. You can also join some of our labs and reading groups.
Related Programs
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Veneeta Dayal
Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics
