Program: Linguistics Minor - College of Charleston

Mar 31, 2025

2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Phone: 843.953.0263

Ricard Vinas de Puig, Director

This interdisciplinary minor in Linguistics is designed to examine the structure, historical evolution and socio-cultural roles of language through exposure to a variety of courses about language and linguistics from different disciplinary perspectives. Such exposure should convey the importance of language/linguistics and its study for a variety of career choices and contribute to students’ understanding of human interaction, from the levels of the interpersonal to that of the global community.

Minor Requirements

Credit Hours: 18+

In addition to completing the requirements for this minor, students must also complete the minor requirements specified in the Academic Regulations section of this catalog.

Introduction course (3 credit hours):

LING 125 Introduction to Linguistics (3)

Complete 15 additional hours from the following three areas with at least 3 hours from a LING 200+ course.

Structural Linguistics

Complete 3 credit hours from the following:

Note:

Any new, additional, or special topics courses in the area of structural linguistics will be considered for inclusion toward this requirement on an individual basis.

Languages and Society

Complete 3 credit hours from the following:

ANTH 205 Language and Culture (3)
ANTH 387 Linguistic Anthropology Internship (1-6)
COMM 215 Communication, Identity and Community (3)
COMM 380 Special Topics in Communication (1-3) (when appropriate to the area of language and linguistics)
EDEE 425 Foundations of Language and Literacies Development: Birth-Grade 6 (3)
ENGL 309 English Language: Grammar and History (3)
ENGL 312 History of English Language (3)
LING 240 American English Dialects (3)
LING 260 Indigenous Languages of the Americas (3)
LING 290 Special Topics in Linguistics (3) (depending on course topic)
LING 490 Special Topics (3) (depending on course topic)
SPAN 446 History of the Spanish Language (3)
SPAN 447 Spanish Dialectology (3)
SPAN 448 Spanish Sociolinguistics (3)
SPAN 449 Pragmatics and Language Learning (3)
SPAN 450 Spanish in the US (3)
SPAN 491 Special Topics in Language Studies (3) (depending on course topic)
TEDU 325 Foundations of Languages and Literacies Development: Grades 5-12 (3)

Note:

Students may not count both EDEE 425 and TEDU 325 to the minor requirement.
Any new, additional, or special topics courses in the areas of socio- or psycholinguistics will be considered for inclusion toward this requirement on an individual basis.
Honors students can take the alternative course of HONS 169 in lieu of ANTH 205 .

Electives

Complete 9 credit hours from the following:

LING 101 Introduction to Language (3)
LING 498 Independent Study (1-3)
LING 499A Bachelor’s Essay (3)
LING 499B Bachelor’s Essay (3)
Any course listed above in the areas of “Structural Linguistics” or “Language and Society” may be taken as electives. An Independent Study or Bachelor’s Essay in another program on a linguistic topic may also be taken upon approval by the Linguistics Program director.

Notes:

EDEE 425 or TEDU 325 -students may only take one of these to satisfy a requirement for the Linguistics Studies Minor.