Support the ProgramLinguistics at Miami University
Major Requirements (41 semester hours)
Note: The requirements listed below are for students enrolling in the Linguistics major in Fall 2009 or later; for those who enrolled before then, please refer to course requirements for students enrolled in major prior to Fall 2009 [PDF].
Linguistics is an undergraduate interdisciplinary program with links to the social sciences, education, and the humanities. The major provides students with work in the formal structure, the social contexts, and the history of languages. Learn more about what you can do with a major in linguistics on the CAS Advising website.
Requirements of the program fall into 2 sets.
First, students must choose 17 hours from the core courses offered by various departments (English, GREAL, Spanish, and Computer Science and Systems Analysis).
Second, they must choose another 28-33 hours from a longer list of courses drawn from Teacher Education, Anthropology, Mathematics, and the foreign language departments, as well as those listed above.
Finally, the student can take any course above the 300-level taught in a foreign language.
For further information, contact:
Director of Linguistics
Prof. John M. Jeep
166 Irvin Hall
Oxford Campus
jeepjm@MiamiOH.edu
(513) 529-1852
Core Courses (17 semester hours)
Take all of these:
- Varieties of English: Dialect Diversity and Language Change
(ENG 202, 3 hrs) - History of the English Language
(ENG 301, 4 hrs) - Introduction to Linguistics
(ENG 303/GER 309/SPN 303/ATH 309, 4 hrs)
Take the following special topics course once. May be taken up to 2 more times, toward fulfillment of requirements for Related I.*
- Language Awareness Special Topics
(ENG 201, 3 hrs)
*As a special topics course, ENG 201 is offered frequently, with each offering focusing on a different topic. Students are required to take ENG 201 once as a Core requirement; they may elect to take it up to 2 more times as a Related I requirement.
Take one of these:
- Advanced Linguistics: The Research Program of Noam Chomsky
(ENG 405, Capstone, 3 hrs) - Discourse Analysis: Speech Acts in Context
(ENG 406, Capstone, 3 hrs)
Related Courses (18 semester hours)
Students must take 18 semester hours in related courses:
- 9 hours from Related I
- 9 hours from Related II
- No more than 1 course from Group 1
- No more than 2 courses from a single department
Related I and Related II allow students to take courses that examine language from a variety of perspectives. Related I includes courses in natural and artificial languages and first and second language acquisition. Related II includes courses in social interaction and communication, research methods, logic and cognition, and teaching foreign languages.
[View course descriptions (The Miami Bulletin, 2012-2013).]
Related I (9 semester hours)
Take 9 semester hours from Related I. No more than 2 courses may be from a single department.
- Computers, Computer Science, and Society
(CSE 151, 3 hrs) - Introduction to Microcomputers
(CSE 154, 3 hrs) - Structured Programming and Computer Algorithms
(CSE 174, 3 hrs) - Data Structures
(CSE 274, 3 hrs) - Fundamentals of Data Communication
(CSE 283, 3 hrs) - Language, Interface, and their Processors
(CSE 474, 3 hrs) - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
(CSE 486, 3 hrs) - Automata, Formal Languages and Computability
(CSE 473, 3 hrs) - Language Awareness
(ENG 201, 3 hrs)
(May be taken up to 2 times in addition to Core requirement) - Introduction to Creative Writing
(ENG 226, 3 hrs)
(ENG 303 or ENG 202 should be taken first.) - Structure of Modern English
(ENG 302, 4 hrs) - Introduction to Technical Writing
(ENG 313, 3 hrs) - Medieval Literature
(ENG 327, 3 hrs)
(ENG 301 should be taken first.) - Topics in Linguistics
(ENG 410, 3 hrs) - Conversation and Current Events in France
(FRE 341, 3 hrs) - French Pronunciation
(FRE 361, 3 hrs) - Linguistic Perspectives on Contemporary German
(GER 471, 3 hrs) - Grammar Review and Composition
(SPN 311, 3 hrs) - Language Development
(SPA 223, 3 hrs) - American Sign Language
(SPA 248, 3 hrs) - Phonetics
(SPA 334, 3 hrs) - History of the Spanish Language
(SPN 483, 3 hrs) - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
(SPN 312, 3 hrs) - Intermediate Spanish Composition
(SPN 408, 3 hrs) - Advanced Spanish Composition
(SPN 409, 3 hrs) - Second Language Acquisition: Spanish
(SPN 446, 3 hrs) - Spanish Phonology and Syntax
(SPN 481, 3 hrs) - Spanish Dialectology
(SPN 482, 3 hrs) - Any course at the 300-level or above and taught in a foreign language
Related II (9 semester hours)
Take 9 semester hours from Related II. Students may choose to take 1 course from Group 1.
Group 1:
- Ethnographic Field Methods
(ATH 425, 3 hrs) - Introduction to Communication Research
(COM 333, 2 hrs) - Research Methods
(SOC 262, 4 hrs) - Applied Sociological Research
(SOC 362, 3 hrs)
Group 2:
- Language and Culture
(ATH 265, 3 hrs) - Rhetorical Theory in Western Thought
(COM 335, 3 hrs) - Non-Verbal Communication
(COM 434, 3 hrs) - Intercultural Communication
(COM 436, 3 hrs) - Adolescent Language Arts I
(EDT 427, 3 hrs) - Adolescent Language Arts II
(EDT 428, 3 hrs) - Language Teaching and Learning I
(EDT 444, 3 hrs) - Language Teaching and Learning II
(EDT 445, 3 hrs) - Introduction to Formal Systems and Mathematical Logic
(MTH 483, 3 hrs) - Formal Logic
(PHL 273, 4 hrs) - Symbolic Logic
(PHL 373, 4 hrs) - Cognitive Psychology
(PSY 271, 3 hrs) - Psychology of Language and Thought
(PSY 374, 3 hrs) - Learning and Cognition
(PSY 372, 4 hrs) - Seminar in Cognition
(PSY 470, 3 hrs)
Students must take additional elective credit hours or a Concentration in Foreign Language Linguistics.
Electives (6 semester hours)
Take 6 semester hours, selected from Related I and II.
Concentration in Foreign Language Linguistics (9 semester hours)
Instead of Electives, a student may select a concentration in Foreign Language Linguistics. Take 9 semester hours in a single foreign language at the 300-level or above.
NOTE: Foreign language courses taken to fulfill the Related requirements may not count toward the foreign language concentration.