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Undergraduate StudiesWelcome to the Undergraduate Studies section of the Linguistics Department website! The Department of Linguistics offers both a Major and a Minor in Linguistics as well as a Certificate Program in Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLAT). It is also possible to pursue Honors in our department, and we encourage students to seek out opportunities to get involved in the on-going research conducted in the Department. The Department also offers an array of courses for students who are interested in language but who prefer to major in other disciplines. Check out our listing of general education and general interest courses on our Undergraduate Courses page! Work in linguistics cultivates key intellectual abilities in our students: analytical skills; data analysis skills; reasoning and argumentation skills; and communication skills, both written and oral. A degree in linguistics prepares a student for further training leading to occupations such as computer programmer, language teacher, speech therapist, translator, counselor, and professions in law, medicine, and psychology which depend heavily on understanding the nature and use of language. Language occupies a central position in the human universe, so much so that it is commonly cited as a major criterion for defining humankind. Language and the problems of understanding its nature and use represent critical components of any number of academic and professional fields. It is central to psychology and cognitive science for its use in the coding and processing of information. It is central to philosophy for its role in human reasoning. It is central to computer science and artificial intelligence for such problems as the design of human-computer interfaces, expert systems and tutoring systems, automatic translation, and speech synthesis. It is central to anthropology and sociology and literature as a repository of one's cultural worldview and as a mark of social identity. The faculty of the Linguistics department at the University of Oregon is particularly interested in (1) the diversity of human languages, as evidenced by fieldwork on a wide variety of indigenous languages; and (2) the structure and function of language in its discourse, pragmatic, social, and acquisition contexts. The Linguistics Department also has a strong interest in applied
linguistics, particularly in the areas of second language acquisition
and teaching. The department cooperates with UO language departments,
including the American English Institute, in the training of students
who wish to become language teachers. At the undergraduate level,
we offer a Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching,
which can be "added on" to any other major. We cooperate with the
College of Education and the Department of English in offering courses
for Oregon State English as a Second Language/Bilingual Teaching
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