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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 BSc in Linguistics is a suitable preparation for post-graduate study in the Speech and Hearing Sciences and for advanced studies in Psycholinguistics and the Phonetic Sciences.

The B.Sc. Major in the first and second years requires:

LING 100A, LING 200, LING 203, BIOL 150A, BIOL 150B or EPHE 141, MATH 100 or 102 , 3 units from PHYS 102, 112, 120, 220, PSYC 100A, 100B and 201

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, such as:

CSC 100, 110, 115, EPHE 241A and 241B (prerequisite 141) . PHYS 214 , PSYC 215A, 340 MUS 306, 307 Course(s) in a second language.

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) and 382 (Experimental Phonetics).

4.5 units selected from among 300 (Auditory and Perceptual Phonetics), 325 (Lexical Semantics) or 326 (Meaning in Language), 409 (Advanced Morphology), 410A (Syntax), 410B (Theories of Grammar), 440 (Generative Phonology), and 441 (Advanced Phonological Analysis).

3 additional units from among 373 (Second Language Acquisition), 386 (Prosodic Features of English), 482 (Computational Linguistics: An Introduction), 483 (Computational Linguistics: Quantitative Methods), 484 (Computational Linguistics: Grammars). These three additional units can also be taken from among courses not already selected from the list of LING 300, 325 or 326, 409, 410A, 410B, 440, 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:.

PSYC 300A and 4.5 units selected from PSYC 300B, 313, 315, 317A, 317B, 323, 335, 413, 415A, 415B, 450.

Students intending to pursue a BSc Honours degree in Linguistics should ensure that they have completed LING 410A and 440 as part of the 15 units required for the Major degree. In addition to the requirements for the Major, Honours students must present Ling 410B, 441 and 499 for a total of 21 units of upper-level courses. The regulations regarding the required level of achievement and the class of Honours awarded are the same as those stated above for the BA in Linguistics.