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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Linguistics, B.A. 4-Year Plan

The Bachelor of Arts with a major in Linguistics requires a minimum of 120 credit hours.

Suggested Four-Year Plan

Year 1

First Semester

CIS 110 - COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I Credit(s): 3
OR
WRD 110 - COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I Credit(s): 3
Foreign Language - First Semester Credit(s): 4
UK Core - Arts and Creativity Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Humanities Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Social Sciences Credit(s): 3

Second Semester

CIS 111 - COMPOSITION & COMMUNICATION II Credit(s): 3
OR
WRD 111 - COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION II Credit(s): 3
Foreign Language - Second Semester Credit(s): 4
A&S Social Science Credit(s): 3
LIN 200+ Level Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Credit(s): 3

Year 2

First Semester

LIN 221 - INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS Credit(s): 3
Foreign Language - Third Semester Credit(s): 3
A&S Natural Science Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Global Dynamics Credit(s): 3
Elective Credit(s): 3

Second Semester

LIN 305 - WORDS & SENTENCES Credit(s): 3
Foreign Language - Fourth Semester Credit(s): 3
A&S Lab Credit(s): 1
A&S Natural Science Credit(s): 3
Elective Credit(s): 3

Year 3

First Semester

LIN 300 - SPEECH SOUNDS Credit(s): 3
LIN 200+ Level Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Quantitative Foundations Credit(s): 3
Elective Credit(s): 3
Elective Credit(s): 3

Second Semester

Group A Course - one of the following:
LIN 500 - PHONETICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 515 - PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Credit(s): 3
LIN 200+ Level Credit(s): 3
Additional Course Work Elective Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Statistical Inferential Reasoning Credit(s): 3
UK Core - Citizenship - USA Credit(s): 3

Year 4

First Semester

Group B Course - one of the following:
LIN 505 - LINGUISTIC MORPHOLOGY Credit(s): 3
LIN 509 - FORMAL SEMANTICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 512 - SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS Credit(s): 3
Group C Course - one of the following:
LIN 310 - AMERICAN ENGLISH Credit(s): 3
LIN 311 - APPALACHIAN ENGLISH Credit(s): 3
LIN 325 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credit(s): 3
LIN 331 - LANGUAGE IN U.S. SOCIETY Credit(s): 3
LIN 506 - SOCIOLINGUISTICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 507 - LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY Credit(s): 3
LIN 508 - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Credit(s): 3
Additional Course Work Elective Credit(s) 3
Additional Course Work Elective Credit(s) 3
Major Elective Credit(s) 3

Second Semester

Group D Course - one of the following:
LIN 518 - ADV HIS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Credit(s): 3
LIN 519 - HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 529 - LANGUAGE CONTACT Credit(s): 3
Group E Course - one of the following:
LIN 301 - COMPUTATION FOR LINGUISTS Credit(s): 3
LIN 510 - CORPUS LINGUISTICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 511 - COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Credit(s): 3
LIN 495 - LINGUISTICS CAPSTONE Credit(s): 3
A&S 300+ Level Elective Credit(s): 3
A&S 300+ Level Elective Credit(s): 3