THE UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR
The undergraduate major stresses the study of language both as a fundamental human faculty and as a changing social institution. At the core of the program is a set of departmental courses on the nature of human language; in addition, the major draws on courses offered by other departments and programs.
The Linguistics Major cuts across the humanities, social, and physical sciences. It provides a solid general education as a foundation for advanced studies not only in linguistics, but in such disciplines as anthropology, communication, computer science, education (language, literacy, and culture), hearing and speech sciences, languages, law, philosophy, psychology, teaching English as a second language. It also provides a solid general background to careers of any type involving communication and/or logic, but most especially computer programming, technical writing, and voice recognition.