Coordinator: Doris M. Macdonald, Department of English
The participating programs are anthropology, communicative disorders, communication, computer science, English, foreign languages and literatures, geography, philosophy, psychology, and women’s studies.
The interdisciplinary minor in linguistics offers an opportunity to study the nature of human language and theories, methods, and applications of linguistics. It utilizes faculty and course resources in several departments. The minor in linguistics is recommended to students who want recognition for having focused their elective courses on linguistics, particularly to students interested in careers involving problems of language communication and the role of language as it permeates human interactions.
Students in any undergraduate major leading to a baccalaureate degree may choose to complete the requirements of the interdisciplinary linguistics minor. Students who wish to minor in linguistics must have at least sophomore standing and a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 and must register with the program coordinator. Those who have satisfied the minor will have this fact noted on their academic transcripts.
The courses listed below survey approaches to the analysis of language and also provide for specialized study in particular areas related to language. Other courses of closely related subject matter may be substituted with the approval of the coordinator.
The student must select courses from at least two departments.
Requirements (18-19)
Six or more semester hours in the minor must be taken at NIU.
Any one continuation course of the beginning non-Indo-European language courses (FLBU 103, FLCH 101, FLIN 103, FLJA 101, FLSL 101, FLTH 103) or any 200-level non-Indo-European language course.
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