Linguistics Minor
Linguistics Minor - Overview
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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences |
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A basic knowledge of the workings of language can be a useful adjunct to many areas of study, including any foreign language, literature, anthropology, philosophy, computer science, or psychology. This minor builds on the introduction to linguistics (1001), which may be taken on its own are as part of another major or minor, to allow further study of some of the sub-areas of linguistics.
Learning outcomes
On satisfying the requirements of this minor, the students will be able to:
- understand some basics aspects of language structure and use.
- be able to read simple descriptive analyses and reports concerning aspects of language structure for specific languages.
- describe some of the major ways in which languages differ from each other.
- be able to recognize some instances of important linguistic concepts in a language already known or being studied by the student.
- Evaluate some kinds of popular arguments concerning language use and the nature of language
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
6 units from the completion of the following compulsory course:
LING1001 – Introduction to the Study of Language (6 units)
A minimum of 6 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 maximum of 18 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)
INDN2101 – Linguistic aspects of Indonesian (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)
LING1002 – Language and Society (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 (6 units)
LING2002 - Language and Society (6 units)
LING2003 - Introduction to Syntax (6 units)
LING2005 - Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction (6 units)
LING2007 - Morphology (6 units)
LING2008 - Semantics (6 units)
LING2009 - Field Methods (6 units)
LING2010 - Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Language - Later Year (6 units)
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
LING3011 - Conversation Analysis
LING3021 - Child Language Acquisition
LING3022 - Seminar on Semantics
LING3025 - Special Topics in Linguistics
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