College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Linguistics BA

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how language is structured, particularly to what extent languages share a universal structural base and to what extent they differ from one another Understand how language is used, and the factors accounting for variation in language use Unders
  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze problems, both linguistic and otherwise, and to find and critically evaluate alternative solutions
  • Demonstrate the ability to present ideas in effectively written form
  • Demonstrate the ability to find in textbooks and research materials — paper and electronic — the kinds of information relevant to a given problem or issue, linguistic or otherwise, and to integrate that information into one's own written work to support o
  • Have a working knowledge of the subdisciplines of linguistics dealing with the organization of language, i.e., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics Have a working knowledge of the subdisciplines of linguistics dealing with language use,
*Retrieved from AMS February 5, 2021. For the most up-to-date information, please contact the program.