Linguistics Minor

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Literature and Language

Linguisitics Minor Program Information

The goal of the Linguistics minor is to provide students with a distinct structured way of obtaining a foundation in the field, hence making them competitive for graduate study in linguistics and for graduate study and/or employment in fields where linguistics is a valued area, such as computer science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and communications.

Courses are designed to provide students with a better understanding of the structure, history and use of language. Students graduating with a linguistic minor will be able to, among other things, explain the core concepts of the field, explain and apply the traditional methods of linguistic analysis in the core fields, identify features common to all human languages and identify social and political issues in which knowledge of linguistics is salient.

To learn more about the linguistics minor, please contact Professor Martha Michieka michieka@etsu.edu or (423) 439-5996.

Linguistics Minor Core: 12 credit hours

• ENGL 3100 - Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)
• ENGL 4117 - Grammar and Usage (3 credits)
• ENGL 4120 - Descriptive Linguistics (3 credits)
• ENGL 4130 - Sociopsychology of Language (3 credits)

Electives (choose two): 6 credit hours

• ENGL 3200 - History of the English Language (3 credits)
• ENGL 4137 - Dialectology (3 credits)
• CDIS 4017 - Speech and Hearing Science I (4 credits)
• CDIS 4027 - Speech and Hearing Science II (4 credits)
• CDIS 4037 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Systems (3 credits)
• CDIS 4060 - Language Development (3 credits)
• FREN 4017 - Advanced French Grammar (3 credits)
• FREN 4337 - French Phonetics and Pronunciation (3 credits)
• GERM 4167 - Advanced German Grammar (3 credits)
• SPAN 3213 - Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation (3 credits)
• SPAN 4017 - Advanced Spanish Grammar I (3 credits)
• SPAN 4027 - Advanced Spanish Grammar II (3 credits)
• SPCH 2330 - Communication Theory (3 credits)
• SPCH 3310 - Intrapersonal Communication Processes (3 credits)

• Other electives may be substituted if approved by the minor advisor.

Linguistics Minor: 18 Credit Hours