ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Allison offers several linguistics courses that can be taken as part of your degree.
Like other inquiries which are central to human experience, language has long been the focus of intellectual examination. Speculation on the nature of language appears in the works of Plato, Aristotle and other Greek philosophers.
Although a number of disciplines, from literary studies to computer science, share the study of language with linguistics, the focus of linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguists are interested in how human language is organized in the human mind and in how the social structures of human communities shape language to their own purposes, reflecting themselves in language use.
Courses
The following courses will be offered during the 2025-26 academic year. For full course listings and course descriptions, visit the .
FALL 2026
- LING-2001 Intro to the Study of Language
WINTER 2027
- LING-3011 Language and Society