Linguistics and English, BA (Boston)

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

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All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Linguistics Requirements

• LING 1150 — Introduction to Linguistics
• LING 2350 — Linguistic Analysis
• LING 3412 — Language and Culture
• LING 3442 — Sociolinguistics

Linguistic Structure

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Complete three of the following:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • LING 3420 — Phonetics
  • LING 3422 — Phonology
  • LING 3424 — Morphology
  • LING 3450 — Syntax
  • LING 3452 — Semantics

Linguistics Electives

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Complete two of the following that have not already been taken to fulfill other major requirements:

LING 3000 to LING 4999

• One of:
  • Any LING course numbered 3000–4999
  • DEAF 2700 — ASL Linguistics

Foundational Courses

• One of:
  • ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
• ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies

Diversity

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  • ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
  • ENGL 2460 — Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S.
  • ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
  • ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
  • One of:
    • ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
    • JWSS 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
  • ENGL 3900 — Gender and Black World Literatures

Pre-1850 Literature

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 1600 — Introduction to Shakespeare
  • ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  • ENGL 3101 — Early Literatures
  • ENGL 3120 — 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
  • ENGL 3160 — Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
  • ENGL 3619 — Emerson and Thoreau
  • One of:
    • ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
    • JWSS 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
  • ENGL 4010 — Topics in Shakespeare

Post-1850 Literature

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 2301 — The Graphic Novel
  • ENGL 2430 — Contemporary Fiction
  • ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
  • ENGL 2451 — Postcolonial Women Writers
  • ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
  • ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
  • ENGL 2600 — Irish Literary Culture
  • ENGL 3161 — 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures
  • ENGL 3619 — Emerson and Thoreau

Theories and Methods

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
  • ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
  • ENGL 2520 — Science Fiction
  • ENGL 2620 — What Is Nature?
  • ENGL 3325 — Rhetoric of Law
  • ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
  • ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
  • ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
  • ENGL 3487 — Film and Text
  • ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine

Writing

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 2700 — Creative Writing
  • ENGL 2710 — Style and Editing
  • ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
  • ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
  • ENGL 2780 — Visual Writing
  • ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
  • ENGL 3376 — Creative Nonfiction
  • ENGL 3377 — Poetry Workshop
  • ENGL 3378 — Fiction Workshop
  • ENGL 3380 — Writing Seminar

Major Seminar

• ENGL 3710 — Major Seminar

Electives

4 semester hours.

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Complete one additional ENGL elective at the 2000 level or higher.

Integrative Course

• LING 3454 — History of English

Junior/Senior Seminar

• One of:
  • ENGL 4710 — Capstone Seminar
  • LING 4654 — Seminar in Linguistics

Experiential Learning

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Complete one of the following options. Courses used to satisfy this requirement may simultaneously satisfy a requirement above:

Study Abroad (not a Dialogue)

International Co-op

• One of:
  • LING 4891 — Research Seminar in Linguistics
  • All of:
    • LING 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
    • LING 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
  • LING 4991 — Directed Study Research

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

• Please visit the Linguistics Courses page within this catalog to review the list of courses in the LING 3000–LING 4999 range.

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