2022-2023 Undergraduate Course Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Linguistic Studies Minor


Contact

Director

Amanda Brown
323C HB Crouse
abrown08@syr.edu

Undergraduate Advisor

Christopher R. Green
330 HB Crouse

Faculty

Tej K. Bhatia, Amanda Brown, Christopher R. Green, Gerald R. Greenberg, Rania Habib, Jaklin Kornfilt, Corrine Occhino, Kenji Oda, Michael Rieppel, Sylvia Sierra, Adam Roth Singerman, Maria Emma Ticio Quesada, Robert Van Gulick

Linguistics is the scientific study of language and is concerned with the following questions (among others): What does knowledge of a language consist in and how is this knowledge acquired and put to use? What are the similarities and differences among languages? How is language represented in the human brain? How does language differ from animal communications systems? How does language function in society? How and why does language change over time? In addition, linguistics is applied in the teaching of languages and in education generally, in computer programming, in advertising, and in many other areas of study and activity in which language plays a central role.

The minor in Linguistic Studies is an 18-credit level program focusing on core courses in Linguistic Studies and related areas.