Linguistics

Courses

Courses

The Brown Program in Linguistics offers a range of courses across different areas of Linguistics.

Below are the course offerings for the academic year 2024-2025.

  • Check out LING XLIST to see available courses on cab.brown.edu.
  • The first set of classes in each semester is offered by the Linguistics Program, and the second by other units on campus.
  • For concentrators, please see the Concentration page to see and be sure to discuss your class choices with your concentration advisor.

Fall 2024

  • LING 0100 Introduction to Linguistics (Cohen-Priva, satisfies general req.)
  • LING 0511 Language and Gender (Benheim)
  • LING 1311 Linguistic Variation and Universals (AnderBois)
  • LING 1512 Language and Ethnicity (Nove)
  • LING 1615 Sociolinguistic Cognition (Benheim)
  • LING 1741 Information Theory in Language (Cohen-Priva)

Courses of interest in other depts:

  • ANTH 0800 Sound and Symbols (Babcock)
  • CLPS 1820 Language and the Brain (Blumstein, satisfies psycholinguistics req.)
  • CLPS 1890 Laboratory in Psycholinguistics (Morgan, satisfies psychling. req.)
  • CSCI 1460 Computational Linguistics (Pavlick)
  • ETHN 1750X Native American Language Loss, Revitalization, and Resiliency (Hicks Greendeer)
  • FREN 1020A Histoire de la langue française (Mostefai)
  • LANG 0750 Identity and Languages in Contemporary Africa (Alabi)
  • PHIL 0640 Logic (Heck)
  • PHIL 1635 Advanced deductive logic (Guindon)

Spring 2025

  • LING 0100 Introduction to Linguistics (Benheim, satisfies general req.)
  • LING 0530 Diversity in American Languages (Nove, satisfies variation req., RPP)
  • LING 1200 Phonology (Cohen-Priva, satisfies phonology req.)
  • LING 1410 Lexical Semantics (Jacobson, satisfies meaning req.)
  • LING 1570 Language Variation and Change in Rhode Island (Benheim, satisfies variation and “advanced” reqs., COEX)
  • LING 1870 Linguistic Field Methods (AnderBois, satisfies variation and “advanced” reqs., COEX, WRIT)
  • LING 0810 Englishes of Postcolonial Africa (Kpogo, COEX)

 

Courses of interest in other depts:

  • ANTH 1311 Language and Medicine (Faudree)
  • ANTH 1650 Ancient Maya Writing (Houston)
  • ANTH 1820 Lost languages (Houston and Silva Rojas)
  • ANTH 2801 Whiteness and Language (Babcock)
  • CLPS 1650 Child Language Acquisition (Morgan, satisfies variation req.)
  • EAST 1510 Chinese: A History of the Language (Li)
  • PHIL 1655 Philosophical Logic (Guindon)

Additional Information

Concentrations

Brown Linguistics offers AB and ScB Concentrations in Linguistics.

People

The Brown Linguistics community is made up of core faculty, staff, visiting professors and postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and affiliate faculty.