<p>Hey all! ^_^</p>
<p>After some contemplation, I have decided that a field I truly want to explore is Linguistics. Does anyone have any idea where I might find a list of undergrad schools that offer this major? Or the best schools for it? :) Thank you for your help!</p>
<p>MIT is awesome at linguistics. Most larger universities have it.</p>
<p>Sabrina, I am also interesed in Linguistics, but I'll probably major in Anthropology...</p>
<p>Like Rabo said, a lot of large Unis have it. Some LACs have it too.</p>
<p>anyway, schools I defintely know are good for Linguistics are MIT, Swarthmore, and Penn. There's defintely more, I'd venture to say that Williams, Pitzer, and Pomona have really good programs too.</p>
<p>Georgetown also has an excellent language and linguistics program, as does Middlebury.</p>
<p>UChicago (considered the "best" in the nation by many people), MIT, UPenn, UMass-Amherst, Indiana-Bloomington (good in languages too), UPittsburgh, UOregon, Ohio State, Cornell, UWashington, Stanford....the list goes on. I mentioned those because these are some of the schools I looked at fo grad school. I am a linguisics major right now and am currently studying abroad. Linguistics is a very fascinating filed and a great compliment to any language study.</p>
<p>Also, another school you may want to onsider is Cambridge in England...their program is supposed to be really good as well. Oh, McGill U and UToronto in Canada also have good programs.</p>
<p>Are you interested in a particular area of linguistics? Phonetics? Sociolinguistics? Some schools specialize in certain areas. I think Penn is particularly good at socioloinguistics. Some even focus on Hispanic Linguistics (great if you are interested in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, etc) or even American Indian Languages (Nahua, Cherokee, etc). Consider what languages you are interested in and check out the programs at each institution. If you like uncommonly taught languages, look to see which schools offer a large variety. Pitt for example has Hungarian, Swedish, Turkish, and Serbian to name a few and requires at least one semester of an uncommonly taught language as a part of the major.</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want. Yes, there are a bunch of schools that offer the linguistics major :-)</p>
<p>In addition to Chicago, MIT, Swarthmore, and Penn, I'd say Brownthey havce a Cognitive Science and Linguistics department which is actually kind of cool. I recommend you check it out.</p>
<p>Remember that for undergraduate, the school itself is more important than any particular program. It's a bit more complicated with linguistics, because so few schools even offer a concentration, but if you do well in any program you'll have no problem getting into grad school. The state schools that bonafide20 mentioned might be fine for grad school, but I can tell you that if you go to UMass for undergraduate, anyway, it's going to be a much, much different experience than Swarthmore, or even Penn.</p>
<p>My one word of caution is to check that schools do actually offer linguistics concentrations. It isn't always what you think. Middlebury, which has a world-renowned language program, does not offer a linguistics concentration (I just checked) or even a single course in the subject (at least they didn't two years ago). But having it is really good enough.</p>
<p>bonafide... Penn invented the field of Sociolinguistics. </p>
<p>At least thats what a friend of mine who took sociolinguistics at Penn said...</p>
<p>heh....</p>
<p>Linguistics is an interesting major.....just make sure that wherever you go has a wide variety of courses so you can explore different areas of the field.</p>
<p>Here are some (more--some have been mentioned) schools that are very strong in linguistics: Georgetown, MIT, Penn, Reed, Stanford, Grinnell, Swarthmore, Chicago.</p>
<p>i majored in ling at pomona, and it was good. the department definitely leans more toward the cognitive science end of things, though, so if you're into sociolinguistics, there won't be as much for you.</p>
<p>I agree with bonafide20 to a great extent, but not totally!!!</p>
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<li><p>Chicago is not any more good at linguistics. They were one of the best ten years ago; now, they are one of the worst!! Most of their good faculty members are retired. Well, all are...</p></li>
<li><p>Yea, McGill is definitely the best linguistics department in Canada, and the best in the world in acquisition.</p></li>
<li><p>MIT is definitely the best in the US, but they don't have an undergrad dept. Swarthmore does not have a grad dept., but is super in undergrad.</p></li>
<li><p>Pitt is not good at theoretical linguistics, but very good at applied linguistics.</p></li>
<li><p>UPenn is the best in Sociolinguistics.</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown is very bad in general. But in sociolinguistics, I am sure they are either the second or the third best.</p></li>
<li><p>In UK. London is the best. Oxford and Cambridge are really bad choices. They just teach languages, they don't teach linguistics.</p></li>
<li><p>UMass is definitely one of the best!! U will definitely get a good job after graduating from there.</p></li>
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<p>there are other threads. Search and you might find.</p>
<p>"Search and you may find"</p>
<p>Gee, Drab, when will your postmodern translation of the bible be in print? So wonderfully listless a twist on the gungho,..</p>
<p>It's still in progress, rorosen, and expected to be finished by 2007.</p>
<p>Ohio State Linguistics is outstanding and I would definitely check it out. Additionally, their foreign language dep. has some unique offerings.</p>
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MIT is definitely the best in the US, but they don't have an undergrad dept.
Hmm, not sure where you're getting your info... MIT most definitely does have an undergrad linguistics major. It's called Linguistics</a> and Philosophy, but you can choose either a linguistics track or a philosophy track.</p>
<p>This thread should be helpful to you.</p>
<p>Any recommendations specifically for cognitive science & linguistics? I already know about Brown's Cog & Ling Sci and Harvard's Mind, Brain & Behavior, but would like leads on other departments at less selective colleges. Thanks.</p>
<p>You are wrong! That undergrad program is not a linguistics program. It is called "Program in Language and Mind," and the only required linguistics course is "Introduction to Linguistics." </p>
<p>So how can a program be a ling program if there is only one ling course? Even students of English or literature departments take more ling. courses depending on the univ.</p>
<p>So, I am repeating: MIT does not have an undergrad Ling program.</p>
<p>entomom, I would say MIT is top for cognitive science & linguistics. Obviously, they r great in ling. As for cognitive science, they have superb researchers like Edward Gibson and Alec Marantz who also work in the Ling dept. But to get admitted must be extremely challanging!!</p>