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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Linguistics, B.S. 4-Year Plan

The Bachelor of Science 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 3 Credit Hours
OR
WRD 110 - Composition and Communication I 3 Credit Hours
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 and Communication II 3 Credit Hours
OR
WRD 111 - Composition and Communication II 3 Credit Hours
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 3 Credit Hours
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 and Sentences 3 Credit Hours
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 3 Credit Hours
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 3 Credit Hours
LIN 515 - Phonological Analysis 3 Credit Hours
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 3 Credit Hours
LIN 509 - Formal Semantics 3 Credit Hours
LIN 512 - Syntactic Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Group C Course - one of the following:
LIN 310 - American English 3 Credit Hours
LIN 311 - Appalachian English 3 Credit Hours
LIN 325 - Language and Culture 3 Credit Hours
LIN 331 - Language in U.S. Society 3 Credit Hours
LIN 506 - Sociolinguistics 3 Credit Hours
LIN 507 - Linguistic Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
LIN 508 - Discourse Analysis 3 Credit Hours
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 - Advanced History of English Language 3 Credit Hours
LIN 519 - Historical Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
LIN 529 - Language Contact 3 Credit Hours
Group E Course - one of the following:
LIN 301 - Computation for Linguists 3 Credit Hours
LIN 510 - Corpus Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
LIN 511 - Computational Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
A&S 300+ Level Elective Credit(s): 3
A&S 300+ Level Elective Credit(s): 3