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)
  • LING 1200 Phonology (Cohen-Priva)
  • LING 1410 Lexical Semantics (Jacobson)
  • LING 1870 Linguistic Field Methods (AnderBois)

Additional courses to be added. 

Courses of interest in other depts:

  • ANTH 1815 Listening and Society (Berman)
  • CLPS 0800 Language and the Mind (Feiman, satisfies psycholinguistics req.)
  • EDUC 0540 Language and Education Policy in Multilingual Contexts (de Galbert)
  • JAPN 0711 Japanese Linguistics (Yamashita)
  • NAIS tbd Native American Languages (Dupris)
  • NAIS tbd Language, Race, and Indigeneity (Dupris)
  • NAIS tbd Community-Centered Language Documentation (Harvey)
  • PHIL 1665 Modal 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.