Linguistics

Jason D. Haugen, Associate Professor of Anthropology; chair

Steven R. Huff, Professor of German Language and Literatures
Gillian Johns, Associate Professor of English

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Linguistics is the discipline concerned with the scientific study of human language.

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Majors and Minors

• Linguistics Minor  

Curriculum

Since the capacity for language is often taken to be one of the defining characteristics of the human species, an understanding of how language works is a key to understanding what it means to be human. Language is in this and other ways vital to many disciplines across the liberal arts curriculum, so the linguistics program is by nature multidisciplinary and often appeals to and is relevant for a wide variety of Oberlin students, including those majoring in, among other disciplines:

• Anthropology
• Comparative Literature
• Neuroscience
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Classical or modern world languages, including English

Courses

• LING 301 - Syntax
• LING 415F - Internships in Teaching - Full
• LING 415H - Internships in Teaching - Half
• LING 500 - Linguistics Portfolio
• LING 501 - Linguistics Capstone
• LING 995F - Private Reading - Full
• LING 995H - Private Reading - Half