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
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Linguistics Requirements | ||
| LING 1150 | Introduction to Language and Linguistics | 4 |
| LING 2350 | Linguistic Analysis | 4 |
| LING 3412 | Language and Culture | 4 |
| LING 3442 | Sociolinguistics | 4 |
| Linguistic Structure | ||
| Complete three of the following: | 12 | |
| Phonetics | ||
| Phonology | ||
| Morphology | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| Linguistics Electives | ||
| Complete two courses (not used elsewhere) from the following: | 8 | |
| ASL Linguistics | ||
| Phonetics | ||
| Phonology | ||
| Morphology | ||
| Bilingualism | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Historical Linguistics | ||
| Seminar in Linguistics | ||
| 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 | |
| Independent Study | ||
| Introduction to Logic | ||
| Psychology of Language | ||
| Cognition | ||
| Language and the Brain | ||
| Psychology of Reading | ||
| Cognitive Development | ||
| Laboratory in Psycholinguistics | ||
| Laboratory in Cognition | ||
| Seminar in Psycholinguistics | ||
| Seminar in Cognition | ||
| Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
English Requirements
| 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 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one of the following courses: | 4 | |
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Global Literatures 1 | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Milton | ||
| 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 | |
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| The American Renaissance | ||
| 19th-Century Literatures | ||
| Emerson and Thoreau | ||
| 19th-Century Major Figure | ||
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art (Abroad) | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| Technologies of Text | ||
| Writing Cultures | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Research in Rhetoric and Writing | ||
| Comparative Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Visual Writing: Writing Visuals | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| Publishing in the 21st Century | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| Electives | ||
| Complete one additional ENGL elective at the 2000 level or higher. | 4 | |
Linguistics/English Combined Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Integrative Course | ||
| LING 3454 | History of English | 4 |
| Junior/Senior Seminar | ||
| ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
| 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 | ||
| Research Seminar in Linguistics | ||
| Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 and Junior/Senior Honors Project 2 | ||
| 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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| LING 1150 | 4 | LING 2350 | 4 | Vacation | 0 | Vacation | 0 |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | ENGL 1400 | 4 | ||||
| MATH 1215 | 4 | Foreign language core course | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| LING 3454 | 4 | Linguistic structure course | 4 | Vacation | 0 | Co-op | 0 |
| Linguistics elective | 4 | LING 3412 or 3442 | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 1410 or 1160 | 4 | Theories and methods course | 4 | ||||
| Foreign language core course | 4 | Diversity course | 4 | ||||
| EESC 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | Linguistic structure course | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| Pre-19th century literature course | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Comparative literature course | 4 | ||||||
| ENGW 3315 | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | LING 3412 or 3442 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| Linguistics structure course | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Writing course | 4 | ||||||
| 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature course | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 5 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | Linguistics elective | 4 | ||||
| Junior/senior seminar | 4 | ||||||
| Foreign language core course | 4 | ||||||
| English elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 129 | |||||||