{"id":1482,"date":"2024-10-11T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/?page_id=1482"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:13:19","slug":"graduate-courses-in-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Courses in Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Graduate Courses<\/h2>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">601<\/span><\/span> Phonetics & Phonology: Introduction to Sound Systems<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\">Fall and Spring<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        <div class=\"cf-hub-ind\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cf-hub-head\" alt=\"BU Hub\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-buhub\">BU Hub<\/span>  <\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hub-head\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-questionmark\">Learn More<\/span>  <\/a>  <ul class=\"cf-hub-offerings\"><li class=\"cf-hub-area-1\">Critical Thinking<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-G\">Quantitative Reasoning I<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-F\">Scientific Inquiry II<\/li>  <\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Introduction to the nature and patterning of sounds in human language. Presents articulatory and acoustic phonetics, and basic phonological analysis, focusing on cross-language typology and comparison. Hands-on development of practical skills, including IPA transcription, field techniques, and digital speech analysis. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning I, Critical Thinking.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">611<\/span><\/span> Morphology: Introduction to the Structures and Shapes of Words<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\"> Graduate Corequisites: (GRSLX612) - (Students must also register for required co-req GRS LX 612.) Morphology, the study of the internal structure and the shapes of words across languages, straddles the boundary between syntax and phonology. This course covers the major empirical and theoretical issues in the study of morphology, emphasizing links to other components of grammar. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled \"Morphology\" that was previously numbered CAS LX 521.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">612<\/span><\/span> Morphology: Introduction to the Structures and Shapes of Words Discussion<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">0 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\"> Graduate Corequisites: (GRSLX611) - Required discussion section for students registered in GRS LX 611. Students must also register for GRS LX 611.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">617<\/span><\/span> Having and Being across Languages<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Graduate corequisite: CASLX 618. Languages differ startlingly in how they express the apparently basic concepts of \"possession\" and \"essence\". Students explore this variety and its implications, addressing fundamental questions about linguistic relativism, language universals, and the relationship between structure and meaning. Students must also register for CASLX 618 corequisite.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">618<\/span><\/span> Having and Being across Languages<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">0 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Graduate Corequisite: CASLX 617 - Required discussion section for students registered in CASLX 617. Students must also register for CASLX 617.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">621<\/span><\/span> Syntax: Introduction to Sentential Structure<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\">Fall and Spring<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Introduction to syntax as an object of inquiry. Students build an increasingly sophisticated model of syntactic knowledge to account for data from English and other languages, constructing and evaluating alternative hypotheses about how sentence structure works.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">627<\/span><\/span> Focus<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Exploration of focus in natural language, integrating syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology, and pragmatics in pursuit of general understanding of the cross-linguistic diversity of focus phenomena and the ways in which different linguistic processes cooperate to express focus. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 518.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">628<\/span><\/span> Questions<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\"><\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Exploration of question formation across languages, and from several theoretical perspectives, integrating syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology, pragmatics, and philosophy in pursuit of a general understanding of one of the central phenomena driving theoretical linguistics.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">631<\/span><\/span> Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\">Fall and Spring<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        <div class=\"cf-hub-ind\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cf-hub-head\" alt=\"BU Hub\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-buhub\">BU Hub<\/span>  <\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hub-head\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-questionmark\">Learn More<\/span>  <\/a>  <ul class=\"cf-hub-offerings\"><li class=\"cf-hub-area-J\">Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-I\">The Individual in Community<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-3\">Teamwork\/Collaboration<\/li>  <\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. Graduate students situate their project in relation to prior literature in the final project. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Teamwork and Collaboration.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><aside class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<div class=\"cf-course-card\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"cf-course-title\"><span class=\"cf-course-id\"><span class=\"cf-course-college\">CAS<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-dept\">LX<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-number\">641<\/span><\/span> Sociolinguistics<\/h3>\n\t\t<p class=\"meta cf-course-info\"><span class=\"cf-course-credits\">4 credits.<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-offered\">Fall and Spring<\/span> <span class=\"cf-course-prereqs\"><\/span><\/p>\n        \n\t\t<p class=\"cf-course-description\">Introduction to language in its social context. Methodological and theoretical approaches to sociolinguistics. Linguistic variation in relation to situation, gender, socioeconomic class, linguistic context, and ethnicity. Integrating micro- and macro-analysis from conversation to societal language planning. Also offered as CAS AN 521. <\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/aside><div class=\"paging\"><span class=\"current\">1<\/span> &middot; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/2\/\">2<\/a><\/span> &middot; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/3\/\">3<\/a><\/span> &middot; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/4\/\">4<\/a><\/span> &middot; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/5\/\">5<\/a><\/span> &middot; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/graduate-courses-in-linguistics\/6\/\">6<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Courses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18548,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1482\/revisions\/1485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}