possible Linguistics major?

jkeil911
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:54:19 +0000

As someone who works with linguists, I’d suggest you look at larger rather than smaller departments. There are a number of fields in linguistics–phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, and then all the “linguistics” (social, historical, pyscho, etc.)–and these are hard to cover well with a two- or three-professor program. You may also desire to do field work in an exotic language, education in which is more likely in general at larger schools. Indeed, it is small departments like Reed’s and Bryn Mawr’s that are targeted by college administrators for inclusion into English depts if not outright elimination. Georgetown has a good mid-sized department. Ohio State might be large, but check out its department. So, too, UCLA. UMASS and UPitt (43K/yr) might be the best programs you could get into with your SAT. Do check out your state flagship, as well, for good prices.