International Studies - Linguistics

International Studies majors are required to demonstrate basic proficiency in a modern foreign language.  This can be accomplished in one of the following ways:

• Completion of the fourth quarter college-level foreign language course
• Proficiency Exam
• AP Language or Literature Exam
• IB Language Exam
• SAT II Language Exam
• Graduation from high school outside of the United States

All eight (8) courses must be 4 units, upper-division and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

All students are required to complete the following course:

• LIGN 101. Introduction to the Study of Language

At least three (3) of the eight (8) upper-division courses must be selected from the following:

• LIGN 105. Law and Language
• LIGN 108. Languages of Africa
• LIGN 143. Structure of Spanish
• LIGN 150. Historical Linguistics
• LIGN 152. Indigenous Languages of the Americas
• LIGN 155. Evolution of Language
• LIGN 174. Gender and Language in Society
• LIGN 175. Sociolinguistics
• LIGN 176. Language of Politics and Advertising
• LIGN 177. Multilingualism
• LIGN 178. Spanish Sociolinguistics

The remaining four (4) upper-division courses may be selected from the following:

• LIGN 100 – 199
  
  • With the exception of LIGN 195. Apprentice Teaching
• Note: A maximum of one (1) LIGN 199. Independent Study in Linguistics course may be applied toward the major by completing the guidelines set forth by International Studies.

All three (3) courses must be upper-division, 4 units and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

• Courses must be selected from the approved Interdisciplinary Elective Course List
  
  • Note: All courses must be selected from departments outside of the disciplinary focus department.

Course Pre-requisites: Students are responsible for meeting all departmental pre-requisite courses.  Please refer to the General Catalog (Link to: catalog.ucsd.edu) for additional information.

At least three (3) of the eleven (11) Disciplinary Focus and Interdisciplinary Elective courses must focus on one region.

• Note: This requirement is an overlap requirement comprised of courses that count for both the Disciplinary Focus or Interdisciplinary Elective courses and the Regional Requirement.
• Regional Requirement courses may come all from within the Disciplinary Focus, Interdisciplinary Electives, or a combination of the two.
• Possible regions include: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.