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Students wishing to graduate with an Honours degree in Linguistics must fulfill all Faculty of Social Sciences program requirements for Honours degrees with a major field.

See 3.6 Graduation - Honours Degree with a Major Field.

At least two full-course equivalents in Linguistics must have been completed at the time of application.

All students, especially those in the Honours program, are strongly encouraged to meet specific degree requirements as early in their program as possible. Note that it is possible for students in second year or higher to take Linguistics 301, 303, 319, and 341 immediately after finishing Linguistics 201. Students are strongly advised to take the 301/401 sequence in a single academic year, and the 303/403 sequence in a single academic year. Linguistics 341 should be taken either before or concurrently with 303. To complete a degree in a timely fashion, Majors are advised to consult the suggested course schedule below. It is important to check prerequisites for senior courses.

The Major in Linguistics is designed to provide students with foundational and advanced training in the core and specific focal areas of the discipline. Students can also pursue Concentrations in Applied Linguistics or Speech-Language Sciences. Applied Linguistics is a wide-ranging field involving career paths in a variety of areas including Second Language Teaching, Translation, Indigenous Studies, Language Policy Development and Machine Translation. The Concentration in Speech-Language Sciences is of most interest to students intending to enter graduate school in Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology. Students interested in these Concentrations should consult with the Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of Linguistics as soon as possible in their program so that a specific degree (Major/Minor, Double Major) and sequence of courses can be selected in accordance with the student's interests and goals and the requirements of the various programs and courses.

Any student who has declared a Linguistics Major is eligible to declare a Concentration in either Applied Linguistics or Speech-language Sciences.

Applied Linguistics

Linguistics Majors who take three full-course equivalents from the following list (of which one and one-half full-course equivalents must be Linguistics courses) will fulfill the requirements of a concentration in Applied Linguistics. Exceptions can be arranged at the discretion of the Undergraduate Advisor.

Applicable Course: Linguistics 373 Sociolinguistics

Language Teaching and Learning Focus:

• Linguistics 311 Second Language Acquisition
• Linguistics 313 Classroom-Oriented Second Language Research
• Linguistics 331 First Language Acquisition
• Linguistics 381 History of English
• Linguistics 431 Child Language: Syntax and Morphology
• Linguistics 433 Child Language: Phonology and the Lexicon
• Linguistics 434 Second Language Syntax
• Linguistics 525[ Topics in Second Language Acquisition

Note: Language and culture courses appropriate to the teaching area should also be selected.

Translation Focus:

• French 335 Reading French (Advanced I)
• French 337 Reading French (Advanced II)
• Spanish 523 Translation

Native Studies Focus:

• Linguistics 531 Survey of Aboriginal Languages of the Americas
• Sociology 307 Sociology of First Nations in Canada

Speech-Language Sciences

Since requirements differ at various graduate schools, students are strongly advised to request information on requirements directly from the schools in which they are interested. A folder with general information on Canadian programs in speech pathology and audiology may be borrowed from the departmental office.

Linguistics majors who take three full-course equivalents from the following lists (of which at least one-half full-course equivalent must be a quantitative methods course, and at least one full-course equivalent must consist of Linguistics courses) will fulfill the requirements of a Concentration in Speech-Language Sciences:

• Linguistics 331 First Language Acquisition
• Linguistics 339* Psycholinguistics
• Linguistics 431 Child Language: Syntax and Morphology
• Linguistics 433 Child Language: Phonology and the Lexicon
• Linguistics 434 Second Language Syntax
• Linguistics 437 Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology
• Linguistics 441 Phonetics II
• Psychology 205 Principles of Psychology (prerequisite for most Psychology courses)
• Psychology 351 Developmental Psychology
• Psychology 353 Psychology of Aging
• Psychology 467* Experimental Psycholinguistics
• Psychology 471 Auditory Processing
• Zoology 361 Introduction to Human Physiology I
• Zoology 363 Introduction to Human Physiology II

*Students may not obtain credit for both Linguistics 339 and Psychology 467.
Students are advised to check the prerequisites for Psychology 400-level courses. There are enrolment limits in these courses, and that enrolment priority is given to Psychology Majors.

Quantitative Methods Courses:

• Applied Psychology 301 Statistics in Applied Psychology and Education I
• Psychology 312 Experimental Design and Quantitative Methods for Psychology
• Sociology 311 and 315 Introductory Social Statistics I and II
• Statistics 213 and 217 Introduction to Statistics I and II
• First-year courses in Biology, Calculus and Physics are also highly recommended.

Program Options (BA in Linguistics and BA Honours in Linguistics)

Program options are to be chosen in consultation with departmental advisors. Majors and Honours in Linguistics are encouraged to select their extra-departmental options from other social sciences (especially Anthropology, Archaeology, Psychology and Sociology), Philosophy, Computer Science, and languages.