The Polar Opposite Conundrum: LAC vs Berkeley

kenf1234
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:25:50 +0000

Pomona College and many other LACs have a major just for linguistics.



Pomona does seem to have a lot of course offerings in linguistics. Even if a college has a linguistics major, that doesn’t mean they offer a lot of courses in linguistics. Any place without a graduate school is going to be limited in the end. It may not matter for many (or most) undergrads, but if you want to go in-depth, or have peculiar interests, a big research university offers all kinds of opportunities.

I’m not suggesting that small LACs don’t provide students with special opportunities that big schools like Berkeley don’t. What I am saying is that we shouldn’t overlook the opportunities that only a place like Berkeley can offer.