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See our new courses for 2012-2013 !

Changes to programs and course numbers in 2012-2013 - click to view/hide


The Linguistics Department's programs and courses are undergoing a major round of changes in 2012-2013.  Students who are already enrolled in a Linguistics program will not be affected by these changes.
Your program requirements are given in the Undergraduate Calendar for the year in which you first registered in the Faculty of Humanities. For more detailed information, please see the section of the Undergraduate Calendar on Program Requirement Change (found in Undergraduate Information > Undergraduate Academic Regulations). Undergraduate Calendars from previous years are available online here.

Many course numbers have changed in 2012-2013. Use the following chart of renumbered courses below to substitute the new course numbers into your existing program requirements:

Course name 

Old number

New number

Experimental Phonetics  

LING 382

LING 486

Morphology

LING 409

LING 309*

Syntax 

LING 410A

LING 311

Advanced Syntactic Analysis 

LING 410B

LING 411

Second Language Phonology

LING 438

LING 338

Generative Phonology

LING 440

LING 312

Advanced Phonological Analysis

LING 441

LING 412

*LING 309 is now called Topics in Morphology.

For one example of how the renumbered courses fit into the existing programs, you can click on the link below. This shows the Linguistics program requirements from the 2011-2012 Calendar, with the renumbered courses indicated in red.

                        2011-2012 Program requirements (PDF format)

If you have further questions about your program requirements, please contact the Linguistics Undergraduate Adviser (Martha McGinnis-Archibald, mjmcginn@uvic.ca) or the Academic Advising Centre: http://web.uvic.ca/advising/.


Overview of Undergraduate Programs

 The Linguistics Department offers a variety of undergraduate programs, as well as MA and PhD graduate programs. Although all our undergraduate degree programs are based on the same core set of introductory courses, each program is designed to serve the specific needs of students in that subject area, and thus involves a different set of requirements.

The BA in Linguistics is designed to give students a general background in all aspects of linguistic description and theory. Students can use this degree to prepare for all the different career paths that linguists can follow. Students who wish to focus their Linguistics BA program on one or more specific areas can choose to declare one or more of the following Concentrations: Language and Society; Language and Speech; and Indigenous Languages. It is also possible to do a General or Minor program in Linguistics. 

The BSc in Linguistics gives students a general background in linguistic description and theory, but with an emphasis on the more quantitative areas of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, as well on the cognitive, neural and biological aspects of language (through courses taken in Biology and Psychology). This program is designed for students who wish to go into careers in Speech Pathology and Audiology, Computational Linguistics, or Speech Technology, or who wish to pursue further studies in related fields such as experimental psycholinguistics, music acoustics or health sciences.

Applied Linguistics Programs

The BA in Applied Linguistics is designed to prepare students to teach English (and other languages) as second languages in Canada and abroad. It provides students with theoretical background in language structures, acquisition, and teaching, as well as practical experience in language teaching itself.

The Diploma in Applied Linguistics is a one-year program for individuals who already have a Bachelor's degree and wish to specialize in teaching English or other languages as second languages. Like the BA in Applied Linguistics, the Diploma program provides both theoretical background and practical experience.

More details on Applied Linguistics programs are available here.

Language Revitalization Programs

The Department of Linguistics is a partner with the Division of Continuing Studies and the En'owkin Centre of the Okanagan Nation in offering the Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization (CALR). Admission is open to all those committed to the revitalization of Indigenous languages in Canada or anywhere on the globe.

The goal of the certificate program is to develop understanding of the complex dynamics of language loss, maintenance, and recovery, while also providing practical strategies for work in Aboriginal communities to preserve and revitalize threatened languages. This program is designed to honour traditional knowledge and practices, to recognize and accommodate the realities and needs of diverse communities, and to provide a foundation both for language revitalization activities and for further study in linguistics, education, and/or cultural resource management. It is possible to undertake coursework on the Certificate concurrently with progress toward a degree program (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD). Please consult with program staff regarding this possibility.

The Department of Linguistics is also a partner with Indigenous Education in the Faculty of Education and the Division of Continuing Studies in offering a BEd in Indigenous Language Revitalization, and a Diploma in Indigenous Language Revitalization.