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:
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the nature of the structures found across human languages
- demonstrate a basic understanding of how people use languages to communicate, and of the role of language in human society and in communication across cultures
- describe some of the most important sorts of variation found in human languages
- conduct basic linguistic analysis applying quantitative and/or qualitative methods
- evaluate popular beliefs and arguments concerning language use and language diversity
Relevant Degrees
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 |
A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| LING2003 | Introduction to Syntax | 6 |
| LING2008 | Semantics | 6 |
| LING2010 | Sounds of the World's Languages: Phonetics and Phonology | 6 |
A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ARAB3003 | Introductory Course to Arabic Linguistics | 6 |
| ASIA2001 | Language in Asia | 6 |
| ASIA2103 | Language in Asia (L) | 6 |
| ASIA2308 | Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific | 6 |
| GERM2048 | Spoken Interaction in German: Theory and Practice | 6 |
| HUMN2001 | Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects | 6 |
| INDN2101 | The Shape of Indonesian: Its Structure and Development | 6 |
| JPNS 2009: Japanese Lexicon | ||
| JPNS2019 | Japanese Phonetics and Phonology | 6 |
| JPNS2024 | Japanese Grammar and Expressions | 6 |
| JPNS3011 | Language Variation and Change in the Japanese Archipelago | 6 |
| LANG 2103: Second Language Pragmatics | ||
| LANG3004 | Language and Society in Latin America | 6 |
| LANG3005 | Language and Identity in a European Context | 6 |
| LING1002 | Language and Society | 6 |
| LING2005 | Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction | 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 |
| LING2020 | Structure of English | 6 |
| LING2021 | Cross Cultural Communication (L) | 6 |
| LING2022 | Language Policy and Language Politics | 6 |
| LING2023 | Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making | 6 |
| LING2027 | Language and Society in Latin America | 6 |
| LING2028 | Japanese Linguistics | 6 |
| LING2029 | Assessing Language | 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 |
| LING3008 | Study of A Language Family | 6 |
| LING3013 | Issues in Advanced Japanese Linguistics | 6 |
| LING3107 | Morphology | 6 |
| LING3021 | Child Language Acquisition | 6 |
| LING3022 | Seminar on Semantics | 6 |
| LING3025 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 6 |
| LING3030 | A comparative study of Austronesian languages | 6 |
| LING3031 | Papuan Languages | 6 |
| LING3032 | Advanced Forensic Linguistics: Forensic Voice and Text Comparison | 6 |
| LING3119 | Phonological analysis | 6 |
| LING3126 | Syntactic Theory | 6 |
| PASI2010 | Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context | 6 |
| PASI 2020: Languages of the Pacific | ||
| 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 |