Courses

Here are the courses offered in Linguistics by term. Please check here often for up-to-date information on course meeting times and course availability. Course descriptions can be found on the Registrar's site. Note: LING 85, 86, 87 require personal arrangements with the department.

   

All Terms - Arrange

Archived Linguistics Course Schedule Fall 2021-Spring 2022 (PDF)

Archived Linguistics Course Schedule Summer 2022 - Spring 2023 (PDF)

Archived Linguistics Course Schedule for Summer 2023 - Spring 2024 (PDF)

Archived Linguistics Course Schedule for Summer 2024 - Spring 2025 (PDF)

 

See our listing of courses recommended for first-year students, including information about which courses fulfil the college's Language Requirement for Proficient Speakers (LRP).

25-26 LING courses recommended for first-year students and LRP courses (PDF)

Course Schedule for Linguistics 2025-26

Course schedule for each term is still subject to change until timetable is published for that term.

Last updated  5/6/25

Summer 2025

LING 11.14/LAT 30.08 meets with LING 11.15 / GRK 30.08: History and Structure of Latin/History and Structure of Greek - Pulju, 11, QDS, W, fulfills LRP

LING 50.05: History of Linguistics - Pulju, 3A, TMV

Fall 2025

LING 1 (2 sections): Introductory Linguistics - Wray, 11 & 12, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 05.02: Topics in the Study of Language: "The Digital Portfolio" - Donahue, 3A, ART

COCO 023 / LING 11.13 / MUS 17.06: The Language-Music Connection - McPherson, Levin, & Diabate, 2A, INT or ART, NW

LING 11.25 / NAIS 30.25: Introduction to Indigenous Languages - Whaley, 10, SOC, NW, fulfills LRP

LING 22: Syntax - Ernst, 10, QDS

LING 35: Field Methods - McPherson, 10A, QDS

Winter 2026

LING 1 (2 sections): Introductory Linguistics - McPherson, 10A & 2A, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 05.03 Languages of Middle-Earth - Pulju, 2, LIT, W

LING 10: Statistics for Linguistics - Coto Solano, 11, QDS

LING 15 / EDUC 15: Language Acquisition - Wray, 2A, SOC

LING 27: Historical Linguistics - Pulju, 10, QDS

LING 28: Computational Linguistics - Coto Solano, 2, TAS

Winter 2026 Linguistics FSP in Auckland, New Zealand and Rarotonga, Cook Islands:
Spring 2026

LING 1 (2 sections): Introductory Linguistics - Pulju, 10 & 2, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 07.07: First-Year Seminar in Linguistics: "The World's Englishes" - Donahue, 3A

LING 11.XX (pending new course approval) African American English - Whitmal, TBD, distribs TBD

MES 16.03 / LING 11.03: Curses, Compliments, and Secrets: Verbal Behavior in the Middle East - Glinert, 3B, INT or SOC, CI, fulfills LRP

LING 17 / SOCY 49.28: Sociolinguistics - Stanford, 10A, SOC, CI, fulfills LRP

LING 20: Experimental Phonetics - Stanford, 12, TAS

LING 24: Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis - Peterson, 11, SOC

LING 48 / COSC 72 (2 sections): Accelerated Computational Linguistics - Coto Solano, 11 & 2, TAS

LING 80.XX (pending new course approval) Seminar in Linguistics - Peterson, 2, distribs TBD

DRAFT 2026-2027 Course Schedule for Linguistics

Course schedule for each term is still subject to change until timetable is published for that term.

Last updated 12/8/25

Summer 2026

LING 1: Introductory Linguistics - Peterson, 11, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 35: Field Methods - Peterson, 10A, QDS

 

Fall 2026

LING 1 section 1: Introductory Linguistics - Stanford,10, QDS, fulfills LRP
LING 1 section 2: Introductory Linguistics - Stanford, 2, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 11.10 / AAAS 87.11: Language in Africa - McPherson, 2A, SOC, NW, fulfills LRP

LING 11.27: History & Structure of Sanskrit - Pulju, 10, QDS, fulfills LRP [pending new course approval]

LING 18 / ENGL 55.24: History of the English Language - Pulju, 2, QDS, W, fulfills LRP

LING 22: Syntax - Ernst, 10, QDS

LING 25 / COGS 50.05 / PSYC 51.13: Psycholinguistics - Wray, 11, SCI
 

Winter 2027

LING 1 (2 sections): Introductory Linguistics - McPherson, 10A/2A, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 11.XX: African American English - Whitmal, TBD, distribs TBD [pending new course approval] 

LING 15 / EDUC 15: Language Acquisition - Wray, 11, SOC

LING 23: Semantics - Pulju, 2, QDS

LING 26: Morphology - Wray, 12, QDS

LING 50.04: History of the Romance Languages, Pulju, 10, QDS, W, fulfills LRP

Winter 2027 Linguistics FSP in Auckland, New Zealand and Rarotonga, Cook Islands:

 

Spring 2027 

LING 1 (2 sections): Introductory Linguistics - Peterson, 11 and 12, QDS, fulfills LRP

LING 07.07: First-Year Seminar in Linguistics: "The World's Englishes" - Donahue, 3A

EDUC 50/ COGS 33/ LING 11.19/ PSYC 52.09: The Reading Brain: Education and Development - Coch, TBD, SOC, fulfills LRP

LING 11.20 / COGS 50.07: Aphasiology and the Neurobiology of Language - Wray, 3A (timeslot pending coordination with COGS), SCI

LING 11.28: Gothic, Germanic, and Indo-European – Pulju, 11, QDS, fulfills LRP [pending new course approval]

LING 17 / SOCY 49.28: Sociolinguistics - Stanford, 10A or 2A, SOC, CI, fulfills LRP

LING 21: Phonology - McPherson, 12, QDS

LING 33: Typology & Linguistic Universals, Whaley, 10, SOC

LING 48 / COSC 72 (2 sections): Accelerated Computational Linguistics - Coto Solano, 11 & 2, TAS

LING 80.11: Seminar in Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Human Language - Pulju, 2, SOC [pending new course approval]