Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

About this programme

Planned outage: Beginning Nov. 1, you will not be able to access the USask admission application and event registration system for up to six days. Learn more . In Linguistics you gain a better understanding of the function of language in society and develop the skills essential for exciting careers in language pathology/audiology, language teaching, speech recognition and artificial intelligence, forensics, translation, interpretation, publishing and many others. You will learn how language functions in the lives of individuals, groups, and societies. You will study the basic nature of human language such as speech sounds, characteristics of word and sentence structure, geographical and historical variation of languages and dialects. You will learn about the cognitive aspects of language in child language development, language processing, language learning, writing, and reading. This degree program is flexible and offers you the opportunity to take courses in many different subject areas. All first-year courses, but not all upper-year courses listed in the Course & Program Catalogue are offered every year so careful planning in consultation with the Undergraduate Program chair of the Linguistics program is recommended. Here is what a typical first-year schedule might look like: a Required or eligible course for the major b One of the course options to complete the English Language Writing Requirement c One of the course options to complete the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement d One of the course options which may be used in the Breadth, Cognate, and/or Electives Requi