Learning Outcomes

Upon successfulcompletion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. demonstratea basic understanding of the nature of the structures found across humanlanguages
2. demonstratea basic understanding of how people use languages to communicate, and of therole of language in human society and in communication across cultures
3. describesome of the most important sorts of variation found in human languages
4. conductbasic linguistic analysis applying quantitative and/or qualitative methods
5. evaluatepopular beliefs and arguments concerning language use and language diversity

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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 12 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 6 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 and the Pacific	6
ASIA2103	Language in Asia and the Pacific (L)	6
ASIA2308	Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific	6
AUST1001	Learning an Indigenous Australian Language	6
AUST2008	Learning an Indigenous Australian language 2	6
CLAS1001	Traditional Grammar	6
COMP2620	Logic	6
FREN3515	The sounds of French: phonetics and pronunciation	6
HUMN2001	Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects	6
LANG3004	Language and Society in Latin America	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
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
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	Advanced Academic English	6
LING3008	Study of A Language Family	6
LING3012	Field Methods in Linguistics	6
LING3021	Child Language Acquisition	6
LING3022	Seminar on Semantics	6
LING3025	Special Topics in Linguistics	6
LING2040	Austronesian languages	6
LING3031	Papuan Languages	6
LING3032	Advanced Forensic Linguistics: Forensic Voice and Text Comparison	6
LING3033	Advanced Sociophonetics	6
LING3107	Morphology	6
LING3119	Phonological analysis	6
LING3126	Syntactic Theory	6
PASI2010	Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context	6
PHIL1005	Logic and Critical Thinking	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	Multilingualism and indigenous peoples in the Americas	6

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