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Dec 11, 2024
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2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Linguistics Minor
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Students must take courses with 3 different prefixes to complete a minor in Linguistics. Students will take 16 credits (1 required 4-credit course and 12 additional credits of electives) and will engage in a high-impact experience to fulfill the requirements of the minor.
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and at least 12 additional elective credits
Students must complete 12 additional elective credits based on their individualized pathway. To count independent study courses, internship courses, MayX courses, and summer research experiences (8 weeks), they must have a focus in linguistics. Additionally, these courses or experiences can only count once toward the minor (i.e., they cannot be counted twice as both an elective and the required high-impact experience). Students can count up to 4 credits of independent study courses toward the minor.
and a high-impact experience
A high-impact experience based on the student’s individualized pathway must be pre-approved by the student’s minor advisor and the Linguistics Oversight Committee. This type of experience could include:
- summer research in linguistics (8 weeks)
- linguistics research through an independent study course during the academic
- year (LNG-504, ENG-501, JPN-504, etc.)
- an internship during the summer or part of a class relating to linguistics vetted
- through Furman’s internship office and pre-approved by the Linguistics Oversight
- Committee
- a study away experience that connects to linguistics (not just language study)
- and one that is pre-approved by the Linguistics Oversight Committee
- participation in a linguistics institute (usually during summer)
- serving as a non-paid teaching assistant in LNG-210 (or another linguistics
- course)
- a course with a service-learning component related to linguistics
- another relevant experience pre-approved by the Linguistics Oversight
- Committee
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