Department: Linguistics

Director: Francisco Montaño (Carman Hall, Room 276)

Advisory Board: Marjolaine Auclair-Davreux, Languages and Literatures; Bertrade Banoum-Ngo-Ngijol, Africana Studies; Rosalind Carey, Philosophy; Cecelia Cutler, Middle and High School Education; Evelyn Duran-Urrea, Languages and Literatures; Mira Goral, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; Immaculée Harushimana, Middle and High School Education; Beatriz Lado, Languages and Literatures; Óscar Martín, Languages and Literatures; Francisco Montano, Languages and Literatures 

Participating Departments: Africana Studies, Anthropology, English, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Computer Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, and Women's Studies

The interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics offers courses to prepare students for (1) graduate study in theoretical and applied linguistics and (2) careers in the teaching of linguistics, and applied linguistics, including the teaching of English as a second language. Furthermore, the program in Linguistics provides theoretical and analytic foundations relevant to careers in language technologies (large language models, generative AI, speech technologies), education, translation and interpretation, lexicography, and other language-related fields.