<p>What does a linguistics major entail?</p>
<p>I believe courses in general linguistics, historical linguistics, syntax, languages, language morphology, maybe some psychology, stuff like that.</p>
<p>Phonology, Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Field Methods are required at wisconsin along with some upper level electives</p>
<p>thank you, both, for replying.</p>
<p>yea, i'd like to do a philosophy major and possibly linguistics minor. I don't know much about the field though, but it seems fascinating....as it pertains to philo anyway.....</p>
<p>I'm interested in possibly pursuing a linguistics major, as well.. what kinds of graduate study/career opportunities could it lead to?</p>
<p>My childhood neighbor became a college professor in Linguistics.</p>
<p>As far as professorships, it is easier in linguistics than some other fields (i.e. philosophy, english, whatever), because of the (small degree) of competition for Ph.D.s in the private sector. Its not as easy to become a professor of linguistics as it is to become one of engineering, but . . . its not as bad as other social sciences since there IS some private application.</p>
<p>correct me if im wrong but linguistics is a form of applied philosophy correct?</p>
<p>Is it easier than a philosophy or psychology major? If I love foreign languages, would I probably enjoy it? I've been looking into it lately and it seems pretty interesting.</p>
<p>I think semantics is related to philosophy, but linguistics and philosophy aren't really that similar.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am in semantics now and it is so easy because I am a math/cs major. A lot of what we talk about was covered in philosophy of language classes I've taken.</p>