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2024-2025 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2030

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2024-2025 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2030

Linguistics Minor

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Affiliation: School of Arts and Humanities

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:

A 2.00 GPA in minor requirements.
At least nine hours of the program requirements must be completed at Truman State University.
The Linguistics Minor requires the successful completion of 17 credit hours as indicated below.
No grade of ‘D’ is accepted toward the Linguistics Minor.

Program Requirements (17-19 Credits):

LING 238 - Introduction to Linguistics Credit(s): 3

Completion of 14-16 additional credits from the following:

CML 308 - Principles of Second Language Teaching Credit(s): 3
ENG 419 - Linguistics and Literary Criticism Credit(s): 4
JPN 350 - Service Learning In Japan Credit(s): 4
LING 224 - Topics in Linguistics Credit(s): 1-3 May be selected for credit more than once under different topics.
LING 250 - English Linguistics for the Classroom Credit(s): 3
LING 308 - Principles of Second Language Teaching Credit(s): 4
LING 315 - Structure and History of Romance Languages Credit(s): 4
LING 318 - Structure and History of English Credit(s): 4
LING 319 - Structure and History of a Language or Language Family Credit(s): 4 May be selected for credit more than once under different topics.
LING 324 - WE/Sociolinguistics Credit(s): 4 May be selected for credit more than once under different topics.
LING 325 - WE/Language and Gender Credit(s): 4
LING 401 - Undergraduate Readings in Linguistics Credit(s): 1 to 4
LING 412 - Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language Credit(s): 4
LING 413 - Advanced Linguistics: Topics Credit(s): 1-4 May be selected for credit more than once under different topics.
LING 414 - Language and the Mind Credit(s): 4
LING 430 - Syntax Credit(s): 4
LING 432 - Phonetics and Phonology Credit(s): 4
LING 433 - Semantics and Pragmatics Credit(s): 4
LING 451 - Internship for Linguistics Credit(s): 1 to 4
LING 452 - Internship Evaluation Credit(s): 1 to 3
LING 520 - ESOL Assessment Strategies for K-12 Learners Credit(s): 3

Note:

Linguistics courses that are language-specific (e.g. FREN 425 - Phonology and Advanced Grammar , GERM 432 - Grimms’ Maerchen and German Dialectology , SPAN 364 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology , SPAN 380 - Spanish Applied Linguistics , SPAN 456 - History of the Spanish Language ) may count toward the 14-16 credits required for the Linguistics Minor, but only ONE such course may be used toward satisfying foreign language major or minor and linguistics minor requirements. (Similarly, for English majors, only one course taken for English major credit may be used toward satisfying the 14-16 credits required for the Linguistics Minor.) In addition to the language-specific linguistics courses above, one semester of foreign language courses may be used toward satisfying the 14-16 credits if not taken to fulfill any other requirement.

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