Arts students who enrolled in Sept 2024 or later must take a set of breadth credits from multiple Ways of Knowing categories. Linguistics courses are categorized as Social and Behavioural Systems, so if you need 3, 6 or 9 credits from this category: here is a menu of course bundles for you to consider.
- Courses that must be taken in sequence due to prerequisites are listed A >> B
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- Course descriptions for all LING courses
- LING 100 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics
- LING 101 - Languages of the World
- LING 140 - Challenging Language Myths
- LING 142 - Language and Technology
- LING 170 - Introduction to How to Learn a Language
- LING 200* - Linguistic Theory and Analysis I
- LING 201* - Linguistic Theory and Analysis II
- NB: you do NOT need to take LING 200 before taking LING 201.
- LING 209 - Clinical Topics in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- LING 222 - Language Acquisition
- LING 308 - The Languages of Africa
- LING 433 - Native Languages of the Americas
- LING 425 - Advanced Semantics
- NB: this one *does* have a pre-req of one of LING 327, PHIL 220, or PHIL 222, but you might have done the PHIL course for the "Humanities and Creative Arts" breadth requirement
*be warned that 200 and 201 are the pre-requisites for our core 300-level courses, so they might just convert you to our Major or Minor programs...
- Focus on speech science: LING 209, 222
- Focus on language acquisition: LING 170, 222 and/or 270
- Focus on computational linguistics: LING 201 >> 242
- NB: there are also alternative pathways for LING 242; please see details in the course descriptions.
- Focus on sentence structure (syntax): LING 201 >> 300
- Focus on language use (pragmatics): LING 201 >> 345
- Focus on meaning (semantics): LING 201 >> 327
- Focus on speech sounds & articulation: LING 200 >> LING 313 or LING 314
- Focus on sound/form patterns: LING 200 >> LING 311
- Focus on understudied languages: LING 308, 433
- Focus on linguistic structure: LING 200, 201*
*be warned that 200 and 201 are the pre-requisites for our core 300-level courses, so they might just convert you to our Major or Minor programs...
- A broad introduction to linguistics: LING 100, 170, 209
- Languages of the world: LING 101, 308, 433
- Speech sounds / the form of language: LING 200 >> pick 2 from 311, 313 or 314
- Language use: LING 140, 201 >> 345
- Grammar and meaning: LING 201 >> LING 300, 327
- Meaning and use of language: LING 201 >> 327, 345
- Language, meaning, and logic: LING 201 >> 327 >> 425
- Language and society: LING 200, 201 >> pick 1 from LING 315, 415, 440
- Language and linguistic change: LING 200, 201 >> LING 319
- Computational linguistics: LING 201 >> 242 >> 342
- NB: there is an additional pre-req for LING 342, which you might be able to fill as part of your "Natural and Physical Sciences" breadth requirements. See details in the course descriptions.
- Language acquisition: LING 222, 170, 270
Bonus -- some 4-course options:
- Acquisition of sound patterns: LING 222, LING 200 >> LING 311 >> LING 451
- Acquisition of sentence structure: LING 222, LING 201 >> LING 300 >> LING 452
Do you want more? Have you taken two or three Linguistics courses, but you’re not quite satiated? Have you considered a Minor in Linguistics or in Speech Sciences?