Bachelor of Arts in Language, Culture and Society

The Linguistics Department's major in Language, Culture & Society and the minor in Sociocultural Linguistics are interdisciplinary degrees that focus on language in its social and cultural context, combining aspects of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication, and related fields. We especially recommend them if youre planning to pursue a graduate degree related to language, culture, and society and if youre interested in careers that connect to these topics. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, including similarities and differences among languages of the world, sound, word, and sentence structure, how language conveys meaning, how languages change over time, how languages are learned, the relationship between language and cognition, and the intersection of language, culture, and society. These concerns have relevance to many other fields. The B.A. in linguistics provides a useful background, not only for advanced work in linguistics itself, but also for graduate study in anthropology, law, sociology, language disorders, cognitive science, speech technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, education, and applied linguistics.

Demonstrate English Proficiency By:
Score 24 or higher on the ACT English Language Arts (ELA)
Score 31 or higher on Writing and Language in the SAT
Score 3, 4 or 5 on the AP examination in English Language and Composition, or English Literature and Composition
Score 6 or 7 on an IB Standard Level examination in English (Language A only)
Score 5, 6 or 7 on an IB Higher Level examination in English (Language A only)
Score 6.5 or higher on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)* examination:
Internet-based test (iBT) or iBT Home Edition or iBT Paper Edition: Minimum score of 80 or better