Linguistics - Bachelor's (BA)

DEGREE OVERVIEW

The BA in linguistics provides training in the primary areas of the field related to speech sounds, sentence structure, meaning, and psycholingusitics. Students can also simultaneously earn a bachelor's in linguistics and an undergraduate certificate in TESOL, or a concentration in pre-speech pathology or computational linguistics. Students can also get hands-on experience in various areas of linguistics through internships.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Department of Linguistics & TESOL seeks to deepen our understanding of language by examining how it is represented, used, and processed. Our department works toward this goal through research and teaching in theoretical linguistics, focusing on phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the interfaces among these domains of inquiry. In order to explore questions in these areas, we use multiple methods—including field methods, corpus-based methods, and experimental research methods—to collect and analyze data from a wide range of the world's languages and from both native and non-native speakers of these languages. This approach to the scientific study of language is the primary focus of our PhD in linguistics, MA in linguistics, and BA in linguistics.

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• Degree curriculum
• Degree information in the University Catalog
• Linguistics BA overview
• Program accreditation

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Accent Coach  
• Audiologist  
• College Professor  
• Computer Programmer  
• ESL Teacher  
• Foreign Language Teacher  
• Foreign Relief Worker  
• Forensic Linguist  
• Information Technology: Data Scientist  
• Information Technology: Natural Language Processing: Text Mining  
• Information Technology: Speech Recognition  
• Information Technology: Speech Synthesis  
• Interpreter (in-person or remote)  
• Lawyer
• Lexicographer
• Literacy Program Coordinator  
• Librarian  
• Marketing Specialist  
• Medical Researcher  
• Medical Technician  
• Missionary: Translator or Developer of Writing Systems  
• Publishing Editor  
• Science Communication Writer  
• Speech Language Pathologist  
• Subtitler
• Technical Writer
• Translator/Editor

WHY CHOOSE US?

The Bachelor of Arts in linguistics includes

• a service-learning requirement
• an enhanced language requirement (three years of instruction in a single language, which could be a modern, classical, indigenous, or sign language)
• sufficient elective spots to allow students to simultaneously earn a bachelor's in linguistics and an undergraduate certificate in TESOL, or a concentration in pre-speech pathology or computational linguistics; and
• internship classes that cap out these elective concentrations.

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Take the next step toward investing in yourself by learning more about our Linguistics - Bachelor's (BA) program.

• Linguistics BA Overview