<p>The topics pretty much says it all. I'm not talking specifically about writing departments, but I want to know of what good schools (top 100) exist where I can learn about grammar and the mechanics of writing; where I can study a comparison among languages in how they represent information; where I can learn about the history and trends of the English. I want to know of places that have great programs for people who want to learn new languages: Ancient/Modern Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Old English etc... But I don't want this school to be nothing but humanitiesI have other interests; I just want a program like I imagine to be well represented, with options for those who want to study the sciences (I'm not planning on majoring in a science, so it doesn't have to be absolutely exceptional in this), maths, philosophy etc... Does this place exist?</p>
<p>Ohh I'm the same way. Linguistics would be awesome to study.........I'd like to see what people post.</p>
<p>I've read Dickinson (in Pennsylvania) is very good in foreign languages - not sure about the rest.</p>
<p>I think UGA (University of Georgia) up in Athens might be one...</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>The linguistics department is superb, and it has a ton of languages ranging from Old Irish and Hittite to Russian and Greek. The philosophy, classics, and science programs are also top-notch.</p>
<p>for both linguistics and classics
U of Chicago
UCLA
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
Yale
U Illinois UC
Stanford
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Indiana U Bloomington
Harvard
U Texas Austin</p>
<p>All around strong schools, like the list above, match what you're looking for. I hear Georgetown has a good linguistics program, although I know nothing about their other programs.</p>
<p>I've heard Middlebury College, in Vermont (freezing, yes, I know) has amazing language programs; I'm not sure what else out of your list they have, though.</p>
<p>Middlebury doesn't have a linguistics major, though their foreign language departments are really good.</p>
<p>Definitely Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>I'm a linguistics major and nearly everything we're studying is based off stuff that the JHU professors have discovered (i.e. Optimality Theory) or written. The only school that is really comparable is UCLA, they have some amazing professors there that are actively involved in Optimality and Syntactic Theory as well.</p>