Hello! Are any current Yale students on here majoring in Computing and Linguistics? I’m thinking of applying to Yale as that since my CS skills aren’t quite as good as I would like, but my English/languages skills are alright.
Not a current major, but I wanted to note I think this makes the most sense if you are really interested in Linguistics. It is a great subject, but it is likely to work out best when applying to colleges like Yale if your interest in it is sincere and well-informed.
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What major would you say would be best for combining English/creative writing and CS?
A major in data science combines statistics and computing toward an “applied domain” of a student’s choice, such as linguistics.
I suspect that is normally going to be a dual major situation.
(A little late to this conversation)
There is a spectrum of potential programs depending on the level of computing and the level of humanities. The two you bring up are probably at either end and there aren’t hard boundaries - more of a blur and difference in tools. Linguistics work for any of them.
Digital Humanities programs is closer to the answer on creative writing. These are more about the application of programming to the study and analysis of literature and writing. As humanities focused students they would have greater domain knowledge in the arts and English. However they are never going to be software engineers.
Info Science and Digital Curation varies by school. Some is more like digital humanities (curation), some is informatics (knowledge and data management), and some is more like data science. Within some of these programs you might be able to even take enough electives to approach comp sci jobs.
Data Science and Machine Learning would apply linguistics to text problems via NLP natural language programming. This would include using genAI or basic tuning of AI. This group probably has more data and statistics skills for analysis than Comp Sci and less arts/humanities than digital humanities majors unless they dual major in a domain.
Computer Scientists would be able to do more to integrate NLP into new machine learning models and new algorithms. Although they are computer scientist majors, the jobs usually have the engineer tag. They have the strongest coding skills and can become software engineers, ML engineers, AI engineers, NLP engineers, MLOps engineers, etc.
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