Linguistics at CSI
Welcome to the Linguistics Program at CSI; on this page you will find information about the requirements for majoring in English with a Linguistics Concentration, and requirements for the Linguistics Minor. In brief, English majors with a Linguistics Concentration complete three basic clusters of courses, the first of which includes 3 courses required of all English majors.
Students should also view the Department's Four-Year Plan
English Major: Linguistics Concentration (44 credits)
1. Requires Courses (12 credits)
2. Five Additional Courses from the Following (20 credits)
3. Remaining Courses (12 credits)
Linguistics Minor (12 credits)
Honors in the Major
Graduating English majors may apply for graduation with honors in English. Candidates must have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and must take an independent study with a full-time faculty member, in order to write an honors-quality paper, which will be submitted to the Honors Committee on the dates described below.
The paper submitted need not be a new work; it may be a revision or extension of a paper previously submitted in a course. Research papers, critical papers, and original works of prose or poetry are acceptable. Candidates should ask an English Department faculty member of their choosing to supervise the preparation of the paper; papers submitted to the Honors Committee must have the signature of this faculty member on the title page.
Honors projects should demonstrate superior originality, depth, and research, and critical or creative intelligence. Papers must be technically correct and research papers must have accurate MLA citations.
Students planning to apply for graduation with honors in English are strongly urged to begin preparation of their Honors projects before the semester of their graduation. Papers for majors graduating in January must be submitted to the English Department Office (Building 2S, Room 218) by November 20; papers for majors graduating in June or August by April 1st.
Welcome to the Linguistics Program at CSI; on this page you will find information about the requirements for majoring in English with a Linguistics Concentration, and requirements for the Linguistics Minor. In brief, English majors with a Linguistics Concentration complete three basic clusters of courses, the first of which includes 3 courses required of all English majors.
Students should also view the Department's Four-Year Plan
- (Coming soon)
- See also this semester's Majors Packet.
English Major: Linguistics Concentration (44 credits)
1. Requires Courses (12 credits)
- LING 301 Introduction to Linguistics (4 credits)
- LING 302 Phonetics (4 credits)
- LING 304 English Sentence Structure (4 credits)
2. Five Additional Courses from the Following (20 credits)
- LING 201 Introduction to Language (4 credits)
- LING 303 English Phonology (4 credits)
- LING 305 Second Language Learning (4 credits)
- LING 350 The Structure of Words (4 credits)
- LING 360 Word & Sentence Prosody (4 credits)
- LING 370 Language Change (4 credits)
- LING 380 Sociology of Language (4 credits)
- LING 390 History of English (4 credits)
- LING 402 Speech Science (4 credits)
- LING 404 Syntax
- LING 405 Semantics and Pragmatics
- LING 410 First Language Acquisition
- LING 411 Psycholinguistics
- LING 412 Sign Language Linguistics
- LING 420 Anatomy & Physiology for Speech Science (4 credits)
- LING 430 Phonetic and Phonological Disorders (4 credits)
- LING 450 Audiology
3. Remaining Courses (12 credits)
- These twelve credits may be Linguistics (LING), Literature (ENL), Dramatic Literature (ENL), or Writing (ENL).
- English majors in the Adolescence Education sequence are required to take ENL 323 (Coming of Age Narratives) and either LING 201 (Introduction to Language) or LING 301 (Introduction to Linguistics).
Linguistics Minor (12 credits)
- Completion of any 3 of the Linguistics courses in (1) or (2), above.
Honors in the Major
Graduating English majors may apply for graduation with honors in English. Candidates must have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and must take an independent study with a full-time faculty member, in order to write an honors-quality paper, which will be submitted to the Honors Committee on the dates described below.
The paper submitted need not be a new work; it may be a revision or extension of a paper previously submitted in a course. Research papers, critical papers, and original works of prose or poetry are acceptable. Candidates should ask an English Department faculty member of their choosing to supervise the preparation of the paper; papers submitted to the Honors Committee must have the signature of this faculty member on the title page.
Honors projects should demonstrate superior originality, depth, and research, and critical or creative intelligence. Papers must be technically correct and research papers must have accurate MLA citations.
Students planning to apply for graduation with honors in English are strongly urged to begin preparation of their Honors projects before the semester of their graduation. Papers for majors graduating in January must be submitted to the English Department Office (Building 2S, Room 218) by November 20; papers for majors graduating in June or August by April 1st.
