Certificate in Linguistics

In this certificate program, students will study principles of language structure (pronunciation, grammar, and meaning), and they may then diversify, choosing from a variety of approaches to the scientific study of language. These may include the study of language families and their role in tracing human history; or the acquisition of language by children and by adults; or the ways in which languages may differ from each other; or the relationships of language to other mental processes, to social roles, and to identity.

Linguistics is a natural adjunct to many courses of study. Students majoring in languages, in literature, in anthropology, communication, psychology, education, law, marketing, and many other fields can gain important insights through the study of language. Even for students in unrelated fields, linguistics has a special interest in a community like Hawai`i, where many languages are spoken and where language issues and questions often arise in day-to-day life.

Requirements

1. The certificate will require 15 credit hours of course work (5 courses) at the 200-level or above.
2. The five courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.

Required courses

Students must take the following:

LING 320 General Linguistics

Students must also take two of the following:

LING 410 Articulatory Phonetics

LING 421 Introduction to phonological analysis (Pre: 410)

LING 420 Morphology (Pre 320 or consent)

LING 422 Introduction to grammatical analysis

Elective courses

Students must take two further courses from the following list (or from the list above):

LING 331 Computer applications

LING 344 Languages of the World

LING 346 The Philippine Language Family

LING 347 Pidgin and Creole Languages

LING 412 Psycholinguistics

LING 414 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (Pre: consent)

LING 416 Language as a Public Concern

LING 423 Cognitive Linguistics

LING 431 Computational modeling

LING 441 Metaphor

LING 445 The Polynesian Language Family

LING 451 Induction of Linguistic Structure

LING 470 Introduction to Children's Speech

With the advisor's approval, one course from another department may count as one of the two electives. These may include, for example:

SLS 302 Second Language Learning

SLS 430 Pidgin & Creole English in Hawai‘i

JPN 350 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

KOR 451 Structure of Korean

FR 306 Structure of French

HAW 452 Structure of Hawaiian

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