Linguistics is the study of language: its structure and how it is used on a day-to-day basis. Our class sizes are small, and students tend to develop close relationships with faculty mentors. It's a big reason graduates of our program succeed in a wide variety of fields where analysis, critical thinking and reasoning, and intercultural fluency are valued.
Student in the Linguistics program have access to an interdisciplinary array of courses including formal grammar, language and culture, language acquisition, cognition, and bilingualism. We also a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), a five-course sequence that provides academic coursework and direct teaching experience. While it is not a substitute for a M.S. in TESOL or a teaching certification, it prepares students for graduate work in the field, teaching English abroad, and working with speakers of other languages in general.