Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Minor Course Requirements

Required Coursework (18 Credit Hours):

LING 110 Language and Mind or LING 111, Honors (Goal 1,#1:Crit Think, Goal 3:SocSci, Goal 4, #1:Divsty)



LING 305 Phonetics I (usually offered in Fall semester only)



LING 325 Syntax I (usually offered in Fall semester only)



LING 343 Bilingualism



LING 415 Second Language Acquisition



Elective: Any 3-hour Linguistics course (including LING 106 or 107) or a 3-hour course from the Advanced Language Structure list below, chosen by the student in consultation with their Linguistics advisor

Advanced Language Structure List

AAAS 470 Introduction to the Languages of Africa (same as LING 470)

EALC 570 The Structure of Japanese (same as LING 570)

EALC 572 The Structure of Chinese (same as LING 570)

FREN 310 French Phonetics

FREN 441 The Story of French

FREN 443 French Inside Out

SLAV 520 Russian Phonetics, Phonology, and inflectional Morphology

SLAV 522 The Grammatical Categorization of Russian: Linguistic Units, Functions, & Meaning

SPAN 429 Spanish Phonetics

SPAN 520 Structure of Spanish

SPAN 570 Studies in Hispanic Linguistics

Students can graduate with only one of the two Linguistics minors - either the General Linguistics minor or the Second Language Acquisition minor. (CLAS policy does NOT allow more than one course overlap between minors.)