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 1/20/26
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:
- LING 8, section 90: The Structure of Maori - Peterson
- LING 54, section 90: Foreign Study in Linguistics - Peterson, SOC
- ANTH 52, section 90: Introduction to Maori Society - Craig, SOC, NW
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
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
- (Please use this survey link to get on waitlist for LING 48/COSC 72 after initial course election.)
LING 80.11 Seminar in Linguistics: "Conversation Management: Discourse Markers and the Like" - Peterson, 2 [approval of SOC distrib is still pending]
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 1/20/26
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:
- LING 8, section 90: The Structure of Maori - Coto Solano
- LING 54, section 90: Foreign Study in Linguistics - Coto Solano, SOC
- ANTH 52, section 90: Introduction to Maori Society - Billings, SOC, NW
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.XX: Writing Systems – Pulju, 10, distribs TBD [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 80.10: Seminar in Linguistics: "Indo-European Linguistics" - Pulju, 2, WC