Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of Interest	Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Description

Linguistics is the study of human language.  Linguists study languages from various points of view, including structure, acquisition, evolution and function in society. There are special branches of linguistics devoted to different aspects of languages, such as their sounds (phonetics and phonology),  sentence structures (syntax), conversation and text structures (discourse), and the meanings they convey (semantics).

Of the courses taught by the Program, some are devoted to the theory and methods, while others deal with a variety of applied issues, such as language policy and language teaching.

In these courses, students are exposed to data from a wide variety of languages and may do detailed work on a number of different languages and language families. Thorough training is given in linguistic theory and its application to a variety of empirical problems. Attention is also directed to research methods, the application of linguistics to language teaching, language planning and socio-linguistic issues.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Due to structural changes in the undergraduate program rules in 2012, the courses that make up the new 2012 majors may be different to the pre-2012 majors, and therefore some courses cannot be counted between majors.  Students are advised to contact the CASS Student Office if they are unsure about their Majors.

 

Learning outcomes

Graduates within the Linguistics Major will have the knowledge and skills to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the structures found in all human languages
• demonstrate an understanding of how people use languages to communicate, and of the role of language in human society
• describe the most important sorts of variation found in human languages
• make in-depth analysis in at least one linguistic sub-structure
• evaluate popular beliefs and arguments concerning language use and language diversity

Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units from the completion of 1000-level courses from the following list:

LING1001 – Introduction to the Study of Language (6 units)

LING1002 – Language and Society (6 units)

 

A minimum of 12 units from completion of core courses from the following list:

LING2003 – Introduction to Syntax (6 units)

LING2008 – Semantics (6 units)

LING2010 – Phonetics: Sounds of the World’s Languages (6 units)

 

A minimum of 24 units from completion of 2000/3000-level courses in the subject area of LING – Linguistics or from the following list:

ASIA2001 – Language in Asia (6 units)

ASIA2103 –  Language in Asia (L) (6 units)

GERM2110 – Structure of German (6 units)

GERM2048 – Spoken Interaction in German: Theory and Practice (6 units)

GERM3048 – Spoken Interaction in German: Theory and Practice (6 units)

INDN2101 – Linguistic aspects of Indonesian (6 units)

ITAL3018 – Italiano/Standard e Regionale: Aspects of Spoken Italia (6 units)

JPNS2007 – Japanese Linguistics (6 units)

JPNS2009 – Japanese Lexicon (6 units)

JPNS2019 – Japanese Phonetics and Phonology (6 units)

JPNS2024 – Japanese Grammar (6 units)

JPNS3011 – Language Variation and Change in the Japanese Archipelago (6 units)

LANG3001 – Translations Across Languages: The Translation of Literary Texts (6 units)

LANG3002 – Translations Across Languages: Specialised Texts (6 units)

LANG3005 – Language and Identity in a European Context (6 units)

PASI2020 – Languages of the Pacific (6 units)

PHIL2016 – The Philosophy of Language (6 units)

PHIL2080 – Logic (6 units)

SPAN2603 – Hispanic Linguistics (6 units)

SPAN2604 – Hispanic Linguistics (6 units)

LANG2103 - Second Language Pragmatics (6 units)

LING2001 - Introduction to the Study of Language

LING2002 - Language and Society

LING2003 - Introduction to Syntax

LING2005 - Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction

LING2007 - Morphology

LING2008 - Semantics

LING2009 - Field Methods

LING2010 - Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Language - Later Year

LING2013 - Teaching Languages

LING2015 - Language, Culture, Translation

LING2016 - Language in Indigenous Australia

LING2017 - Chinese Linguistics

LING2018 - Language in Contact

LING2019 - Phonological Analysis

LING2020 - Structure of English

LING2021 - Cross Cultural Communication

LING2022 - Language Policy and Language Politics

LING2023 - Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making

LING2026 - Synactic Theory

LING2101 - Second Language Acquisition

LING2103 - Language Power and Identity

LING2104 - The History of English Language

LING2105 - Language and the Law:  Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (6 units)

LING2106 - Language and Social Interaction

LING3005 - Acoustics of Voice

LING3008 - Study of a Language Family

LING3021 - Child Language Acquisition

LING3022 - Seminar on Semantics

LING3025 - Special Topics in Linguistics

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