A basic knowledge of the workings of language can be a useful adjunct to many areas of study, including any foreign language, literature, anthropology, philosophy, computer science, or psychology. This minor builds on the introduction to linguistics (1001), which may be taken on its own are as part of another major or minor, to allow further study of some of the sub-areas of linguistics.
Learning outcomes
On satisfying the requirements of this minor, the students will be able to:
- understand some basics aspects of language structure and use.
- be able to read simple descriptive analyses and reports concerning aspects of language structure for specific languages.
- describe some of the major ways in which languages differ from each other.
- be able to recognize some instances of important linguistic concepts in a language already known or being studied by the student.
- Evaluate some kinds of popular arguments concerning language use and the nature of language
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
6 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| LING1001 | Introduction to the Study of Language | 6 |
6 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| LING2003 | Introduction to Syntax | 6 |
| LING2008 | Semantics | 6 |
| LING2010 | Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages - Later Year | 6 |
18 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ASIA2001 | Language in Asia | 6 |
| ASIA2103 | Language in Asia (L) | 6 |
| GERM2110 | Structure of German | 6 |
| GERM2048 | Spoken Interaction in German: Theory and Practice | 6 |
| INDN2101 | Linguistic Aspects of Indonesian | 6 |
| JPNS2007 | Japanese Linguistics | 6 |
| JPNS2009 | Japanese Lexicon | 6 |
| JPNS2019 | Japanese Phonetics and Phonology | 6 |
| JPNS2024 | Japanese Grammar | 6 |
| JPNS3011 | Language Variation and Change in the Japanese Archipelago | 6 |
| LANG2103 | Acquiring Pragmatics of a Second Language | 6 |
| LANG3004 | Language and Society in Latin America | 6 |
| LANG3005 | Language and Identity in a European Context | 6 |
| LING1002 | Language and Society | 6 |
| LING2003 | Introduction to Syntax | 6 |
| LING2005 | Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction | 6 |
| LING2007 | Morphology | 6 |
| LING2008 | Semantics | 6 |
| LING2009 | Field Methods | 6 |
| LING2010 | Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages - Later Year | 6 |
| LING2013 | Teaching Languages | 6 |
| LING2015 | Language, Culture, Translation | 6 |
| LING2016 | Language in Indigenous Australia | 6 |
| LING2017 | Chinese Linguistics | 6 |
| LING2018 | Languages in Contact | 6 |
| LING2019 | Phonological Analysis | 6 |
| LING2020 | Structure of English | 6 |
| LING2021 | Cross Cultural Communication (L) | 6 |
| LING2022 | Language Policy and Language Politics | 6 |
| LING2023 | Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making | 6 |
| LING2026 | Syntactic Theory | 6 |
| LING2101 | Second Language Acquisition | 6 |
| LING2103 | Language Power and Identity | 6 |
| LING2104 | The History of the English Language | 6 |
| LING2105 | Language and the law: introduction to forensic linguistics | 6 |
| LING2106 | Language and Social Interaction | 6 |
| LING3005 | Acoustics of Voice | 6 |
| LING3008 | Study of A Language Family | 6 |
| LING3025 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 6 |
| LING3021 | Child Language Acquisition | 6 |
| LING3022 | Seminar on Semantics | 6 |
| LING3025 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 6 |
| PASI2010 | Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context | 6 |
| PASI2020 | An introduction to Languages of the Pacific | 6 |
| PHIL2016 | Philosophy of Language | 6 |
| PHIL2080 | Logic | 6 |
| SPAN2601 | The Sounds of Spanish | 6 |
| SPAN2602 | The Structure of Spanish | 6 |
| SPAN2603 | History of the Spanish language. A linguistic time travel | 6 |
| SPAN2604 | Language variation across the Spanish-speaking world | 6 |
| SPAN3031 | Advanced Spanish Topics in Language and Linguistics | 6 |