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The B.Sc. program emphasizes courses in experimental phonetics, speech and hearing physiology, psycholinguistics and child language, with extralinguistic requirements in cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, biology, mathematics, and physics. These programs emphasize a basic scientific education in a broad but relevant spectrum of fields, together with a strong concentration in linguistics as a science.
The B.Sc. Major requires LING 230 (Introduction to Linguistic Typology), 250 (Phonetics), 251 (Phonology), and 252 (Introduction to Syntax), as well as requiring courses in physiology and anatomy, calculus, physics, and psychology. We suggest other electives be taken from among the computer science, physiology and anatomy, physics, psychology, and foreign language offerings during the first two years.
The B.Sc. in Linguistics is largely constructed to provide students who wish to pursue careers in speech pathology and/or audiology with the best possible background to ensure acceptance into one of the postgraduate programs which specialize in this area. Therefore, in the third and fourth years, we require students to take the following courses:
370A (Psycholinguistics), 370B (Developmental Psycholinguistics), 380 (Acoustic Phonetics), 381 (Physiology of Speech Perception), 382 (Experimental Phonetics), and 383 (Auditory Phonetics)
Three units selected from among 407 (Lexical Theory), 408 (Advanced Morphology), 410A (Syntax), 410B (Theories of Grammar), 440 (Generative Phonology), and 441 (Advanced Phonological Analysis).
Three additional units from among 373 (Second Language Acquisition), 386 (Prosodic Features of English), 415 (Mathematical Linguistics), 426 (Semantics), 430 (Grammatical Analysis), 482 (Computational Linguistics: An Introduction), 483 (Computational Linguistics: Quantitative Methods), 484 (Computational Linguistics: Grammars), and 485 (Computational Linguistics: Phonotactics). These three additional units can also be taken from among courses not already selected from the list of 407, 408, 410A, 410B, 440, and 441.
The B.Sc. also specifies six units of co-requisite courses from cognitive psychology, statistical methods, perception and psychophysics, neuropsychology, and aspects of developmental psychology.
For information about pursuing an Honours B.Sc. in Linguistics see the UVic Calendar.