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Linguistics is a department in the College of Letters and Science. The department is housed in the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall but due to a shortage of office space, several faculty members have their offices off-campus in a suite at the corner of B St. and 2nd (200 B St., Suite A). They were supposed to move to Kerr years ago to fix that problem, but it hasn't happened yet. For detailed course and faculty info not found below please see the [WWW]department web site. Also, note that the major requirements have changed starting Fall 2007.

Courses

Lower Division

LIN 1: Intro to Linguistics - An introductory course for majors and non-majors alike, this introduces all the areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It also may include a discussion of language features and language acquisition, and sections on the evolution and genealogy of languages or sociolinguistics.

LIN 20, 21, 22, 23: 20 - Oral English, 21-23: Reading and Writing for Non-Native Speakers

Upper Division

LIN 103A: Linguistic Analysis I: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology

LIN 103B: Linguistic Analysis II: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics If you are planning on majoring or minoring in Linguistics (except "Linguistics for Language Teachers" minor) you will need to take these two classes.

LIN 105: Topics in Language and Linguistics

LIN 106: English Grammar (same as ENL 106)

LIN 111: Intro to Phonological Theory aka Optimality Theory 101

LIN 112: Phonetics

LIN 121: Morphology

LIN 131: Intro to Syntactic Theory

LIN 141: Semantics (philosophy people should find this one very interesting)

LIN 150: Languages of the World (as it's basically a more general version of LIN 152, I wouldn't recommend taking both)

LIN 151: Historical Linguistics (no longer offered since Prof. Benware has left the dept.)

LIN 152: Language Universals and Typology

LIN 160: American Voices

LIN 163: Language, Gender, and Society

LIN 165: Applied Linguistics

LIN 171: Introduction to Psycholinguistics

LIN 173: Language Development (same as EDU 173)

LIN 175: Biological Basis of Language

LIN 177: Computational Linguistics - A class about working with human language on computers. Prof. Ojeda teaches this class. He covers sound, meaning, morphology, and syntax, mostly focusing on using computers to express the linguistic concepts. I haven't once heard him discuss any particular applications of Computational Linguistics, but you're free to imagine — the goal is to teach the concepts that are encountered in Linguistics, and to teach ways to work with them in [wikipedia]Prolog.

LIN 182: Multilingualism

Some faculty members:

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