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Linguistics ProgramConvener: Patkowski, MarkLocation: 2308 Boylan Hall Phone: 718-951-5195 The Brooklyn College Linguistics Program offers students training in understanding and analyzing language and covers the full scope of the field of linguistics through an interdisciplinary approach. Our faculty members have doctoral degrees in linguistics and endeavor, through small classes and tutorials, to provide students with individual instruction and guidance. We offer students a bachelor of arts degree or a minor in linguistics as well as a dual major. Our students learn the phonetic and phonological sound systems of language and gain an understanding of morphology-how sounds are combined into meaningful words and inflections. They learn to appreciate syntax-how words are put together in utterances-and semantics-the meanings and nuances of language. By studying pragmatics, our students learn how language is used to accomplish goals. They survey the variation in language use across individuals, regions, and societies by studying sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. Students appreciate the development of language over time through historical linguistics. Our students learn about the complex interaction between the brain and language through psycholinguistics. Linguistics majors and minors also have the opportunity to apply linguistics to modern world problems, computer processing programs for language, and, in an independent study, their own interests. Our graduates choose careers in law, education, speech pathology and audiology, computer science, English, English as a Second Language, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, or classical languages. Students who wish to pursue graduate studies may apply to the doctoral degree program offered in conjunction with this department.
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