So, who has experience with linguistics at Reed?

Keilexandra
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:16:41 +0000

Not a Reedie or even an applicant (due to lack of flexibility in CS), but I’ve done a fair bit of research on linguistics at liberal arts colleges.

This is, to my knowledge, a comprehensive list of LACs that offer a major in linguistics (sometimes as a concentration of cognitive science): Reed, Swarthmore, Haverford (through Swarthmore), Bryn Mawr (also through Swat), Pomona, Pitzer, Scripps (off-campus, through Pomona and Pitzer), maybe CMC (again through Pomona and Pitzer), maybe Harvey Mudd (ditto), Carleton, Macalester, Wellesley.

Swarthmore/Haverford/Bryn Mawr and Wellesley have the additional benefit of (inconvenient) consortium access to Penn and MIT, respectively, which house excellent linguistics departments but are definitely not liberal arts colleges.

tl;dr–Reed’s ling department is very strong for a LAC, especially in the context of few LACs offering fundamental breadth in the field.