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
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills 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 maximum of 6 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AUST1001 | Learning an Indigenous Australian Language | 6 |
| CLAS1001 | Traditional Grammar | 6 |
| LING1002 | Language and Society | 6 |
| PHIL1005 | Logic and Critical Thinking | 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 |
| LING2020 | Structure of English | 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 |
| AUST2008 | Learning an Indigenous Australian language 2 | 6 |
| COMP2620 | Logic | 6 |
| FREN3515 | The sounds of French: phonetics and pronunciation | 6 |
| GERM2048 | Spoken Interaction in German: Theory and Practice | 6 |
| GERM3048 | 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 |
| JPNS2024 | Japanese Grammar and Expressions | 6 |
| LANG3001 | Translation across Languages: the translation of literary texts | 6 |
| LANG3002 | Translation across Languages: specialised material | 6 |
| LANG3004 | Language and Society in Latin America | 6 |
| LANG3005 | Language and Identity in a European Context | 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 |
| LING2021 | Cross Cultural Communication | 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 |
| LING2107 | Academic English | 6 |
| LING3008 | Study of A Language Family | 6 |
| LING3012 | Field Methods | 6 |
| LING3013 | Issues in Advanced Japanese Linguistics | 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 |
| LING3107 | Morphology | 6 |
| LING3119 | Phonological analysis | 6 |
| LING3126 | Syntactic Theory | 6 |
| PASI2010 | Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context | 6 |
| PHIL2016 | Philosophy of Language | 6 |
| PHIL2080 | Logic | 6 |
| PHIL2121 | Philosophical 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 |