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Linguistics and English, BA

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In the combined major in linguistics and English, students learn about the structures and analysis of human languages across multiple levels (sounds, words, phrases and sentences, meaning) and apply this knowledge to understanding how the English language works, its rhetorical forms, how it has changed over time, and its cultural context. Students hone their writing skills, develop substantial language-analysis skills, and apply them particularly to English.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

University-Wide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the University-Wide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA language requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

Linguistics Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Linguistics Requirements
LING 1150Introduction to Language and Linguistics4
LING 2350Linguistic Analysis4
LING 3412Language and Culture4
LING 3442Sociolinguistics4
Linguistic Structure
Complete three of the following:12
LING 3420
Phonetics
LING 3422
Phonology
LING 3424
Morphology
LING 3450
Syntax
LING 3452
Semantics
Linguistics Electives
Complete two courses (not used elsewhere) from the following:8
DEAF 2700
ASL Linguistics
LING 3420
Phonetics
LING 3422
Phonology
LING 3424
Morphology
LING 3434
Bilingualism
LING 3450
Syntax
LING 3452
Semantics
LING 3456
Language and Gender
LING 3458
Topics in Linguistics
LING 3460
Historical Linguistics
LING 4654
Seminar in Linguistics
LING 4891
Research Seminar in Linguistics
or LING 4970
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
or LING 4971
Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
or LING 4991
Directed Study Research
LING 4993
Independent Study
PHIL 1115
Introduction to Logic
PSYC 3464
Psychology of Language
PSYC 3466
Cognition
PSYC 4520
Language and the Brain
PSYC 4522
Psychology of Reading
PSYC 4524
Cognitive Development
PSYC 4610
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
PSYC 4612
Laboratory in Cognition
PSYC 4658
Seminar in Psycholinguistics
PSYC 4660
Seminar in Cognition
PSYC 4674
Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience

English Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
English Course-Level Requirement
At least two of the courses chosen from the English Requirements lists below must be numbered 3000–4999.
Foundational Courses
ENGL 1400Introduction to Literary Studies4
ENGL 1160Introduction to Rhetoric4
or ENGL 1410 Introduction to Research on Writing
Diversity
Complete one of the following courses:4
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 2451
Postcolonial Women Writers
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 3663
The African American Novel
ENGL 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
or JWSS 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 1600
Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 1700
Global Literatures 1
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 3618
Milton
ENGL 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
or JWSS 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
ENGL 3101
Early Literatures
ENGL 3120
17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 2330
The American Renaissance
ENGL 3140
19th-Century Literatures
ENGL 3619
Emerson and Thoreau
ENGL 3720
19th-Century Major Figure
ENGL 2301
The Graphic Novel
ENGL 2440
The Modern Bestseller
ENGL 2600
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
ENGL 2610
Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art (Abroad)
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
or JWSS 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
ENGL 3730
20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure
Theories and Methods
Complete one of the following: 4
ENGL 1140
Grammar: The Architecture of English
ENGL 1160
Introduction to Rhetoric
ENGL 1410
Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 3325
Rhetoric of Law
ENGL 3340
Technologies of Text
ENGL 3370
Writing Cultures
ENGL 3381
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
ENGL 3400
Opening the Archive
ENGL 3700
Narrative Medicine
ENGL 4410
Research in Rhetoric and Writing
Comparative Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 1450
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
ENGL 1502
American Literature to 1865
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2420
Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 2430
Contemporary Fiction
ENGL 2451
Postcolonial Women Writers
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2510
Horror Fiction
ENGL 2520
Science Fiction
ENGL 2600
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
ENGL 2620
What Is Nature?
ENGL 2690
Boston in Literature
ENGL 3487
Film and Text (Abroad)
ENGL 3663
The African American Novel
Writing
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 2700
Creative Writing
ENGL 2710
Style and Editing
ENGL 2740
Writing and Community Engagement
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 2770
Writing to Heal
ENGL 2780
Visual Writing: Writing Visuals
ENGL 2850
Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice
ENGL 3375
Writing Boston
ENGL 3376
Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 3377
Poetry Workshop
ENGL 3378
Fiction Workshop
ENGL 3380
Writing Seminar
ENGL 3382
Publishing in the 21st Century
ENGL 3384
The Writer’s Marketplace
Electives
Complete one additional ENGL elective at the 2000 level or higher.4

Linguistics/English Combined Major Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Integrative Course
LING 3454History of English4
Junior/Senior Seminar
ENGL 4710Capstone Seminar4
or ENGL 4720 Capstone Project
or LING 4654 Seminar in Linguistics
Experiential Learning
Complete one of the following options. Courses used to satisfy this requirement may simultaneously satisfy a requirement above.0-8
Study Abroad (not a Dialogue)
International Co-op
LING 4891
Research Seminar in Linguistics
LING 4970
and LING 4971
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
and Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
LING 4991
Directed Study Research

Linguistics/English Combined Major Credit Requirement

Complete 80 semester hours in the major.

Experiential Liberal Arts

All undergraduate students in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

Sample Five Years, Three Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
LING 11504LING 23504Vacation0Vacation0
ENGW 11114ENGL 14004  
MATH 12154Foreign language core course4  
Elective4Elective4  
 16 16 0 0
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
LING 34544Linguistic structure course4Vacation0Co-op0
Linguistics elective4LING 3412 or 34424  
ENGL 1410 or 11604Theories and methods course4  
Foreign language core course4Diversity course4  
 EESC 20001  
 16 17 0 0
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
Co-op0Linguistic structure course4Elective4Co-op0
 Pre-19th century literature course4Elective4 
 Comparative literature course4  
 ENGW 33154  
 0 16 8 0
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
Co-op0LING 3412 or 34424Elective4Co-op0
 Linguistics structure course4Elective4 
 Writing course4  
 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature course4  
 0 16 8 0
Year 5
FallHoursSpringHours  
Co-op0Linguistics elective4  
 Junior/senior seminar4  
 Foreign language core course4  
 English elective4  
 0 16  
Total Hours: 129
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