<p>yes momnipotent, ohio state is definitely in top 10. I mentioned that in one of my previous messages.</p>
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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.
Um, your vehemence is not well-supported by the facts?</p>
<p>The only required linguistics course for philosophy majors is the intro course, but if you choose the "linguistics" track within the department, you are required to take several more linguistics courses.</p>
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[quote=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/program2tracks.html">http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/program2tracks.html</a>]
Required Subjects for Linguistics Track
24.901 Language and Its Structure I: Phonology
24.902 Language and Its Structure II: Syntax (CI-M)
24.903 Language and Its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics
24.910 Topics in Linguistic Theory (CI-M)</p>
<p>Restricted electives for Linguistics track:
A coherent program of three additional subjects from one or two of the three areas: Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and Philosophy.
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It's a small department -- they only graduate one or two students a year -- but you can most definitely undertake a linguistics major at MIT (while taking as many graduate-level classes as you want, I might add).</p>
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<p>What kind of undergrad program is it if there are only one or two undergrads? And is it worth saying that there is an undergrad program if this is the case?</p>
<p>Perhaps an undergrad program where students get quite a bit of freedom to choose their courses, not to mention one where students get a great deal of personal attention from the faculty.</p>
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<p>That's true; that must be a great program. But if only one person is admitted, it is really not worth mentioning that program. I think that they opened it just to say that they have an undergrad program.</p>
<p>vex, MIT definitely does have an undergrad linguistics major - that's why I applied. I visited and talked to some professors about it.</p>
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<p>oh yes yes, I visited their site, and now I know that. But I guess that they didn't have an undergrad major until recently. And even now, it is not that they admit many people.</p>
<p>Oh, it's not that they don't admit very many people -- MIT admissions is intended-major-blind, so the department in which you're interested doesn't impact admissions. There just aren't that many prospective linguistics majors who are jazzed at the thought of taking the MIT core (2 semesters calc, 2 semesters physics, 1 semester chem, 1 semester bio, 2 semesters restricted science/engineering electives, 1 semester laboratory)</p>
<p>Few admits to MIT actually join the department, although there are many more undergrads who take courses to fulfill the humanities requirement or out of personal interest.</p>
<p>It does look like the degree is somewhat recent -- it appears to have been proposed at</a> a faculty meeting in 1999. The Language and Mind program in the department appears to have been around since about 1975.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the info molliebatmit! :) Now, that clarifies it! Do u have any relation to MIT?</p>
<p>Oh, I'm a senior at MIT (although not a linguistics major). I took the intro linguistics course last spring.</p>
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<p>Have you ever seen Chomsky on campus?</p>
<p>I don't know what he looks like. :) He does give lectures somewhat frequently though.</p>
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<p>Mmmm. Noam. Academic celebrities rock</p>
<p>Mollie, I apologize on behalf of vex who slithered from his vehemence once you cooly dispatched his know-it-allity. It was a beautiful curve,..</p>
<p>I would kill to attend a Chomsky lecture!</p>
<p>(I applied to Brown under linguistics...the rest under CS...)</p>
<p>What exactly does one <em>do</em> with a linguistics major anyway? (Jobwise)</p>
<p>No wonder he's called vex. I suggest the OP disregard anything he's said. Seriously.</p>
<p>rorosen and poubelle,</p>
<p>Well, that's not really true. I am a linguist speaking based on my experience. I am not like a mechanical person like him knowing about a very superficial issue (whether MIT has ling undergrad or not.)</p>
<p>OK. I was wrong in that I thought MIT doesn't have a Ling undergrad. But I am sure almost every Ling academicians would think so given the fact that it is a new program.</p>
<p>Again, I am talking based on my experience. But the superficial issue of whether MIT has Ling program or not can easily be found on their site.</p>
<p>BUT... I can say it again: MIT does not ahave a purely ling program. That's called Language and Mind or something like that, and not Linguistics. But I agree with him/her in that students can take Ling classes. But you really don't have to be in that major to take Ling. classes.</p>
<p>Fivre:</p>
<p>I'm planning to double major in linguistics and CS, so obviously personally I would be more interested in the cognitive aspects of linguistics which can be applied to computer programming --> speech recognition and processing, natural grammar, etc.</p>
<p>For instance, have you ever tried to translate something through Babelfish? Sometimes it works well...sometimes it's hilarious.</p>
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<p>What does one do? Generally things unrelated, like most degrees. But one can do mnay language-based things with it. Search the internet with "what do you do with a major in linguistics."</p>
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