University of North Texas 
Hours required and general/college requirements:
A minimum of 120 semester hours, of which 42 must be advanced, and fulfillment of
degree requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree as specified in the “University
Core Curriculum” in the Academics section of this catalog.
Majors must complete 42 hours in Linguistics from the following lists:
Required (18 hours):
- LING 3070 - Introduction to Linguistics
- LING 3080 - Language and Society
- LING 4040 - Phonetics and Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language
- LING 4055 - Syntax
- LING 4090 - Semantics and Pragmatics
- LING 4950 - Senior Capstone Field Experience
Electives (24 hours):
- LING 1020 - Speech for International Students
- LING 2040 - Endangered Languages
- LING 2050 - The Language of Now
- LING 2060 - Language and Computers
- LING 2070 - Language and Discrimination
- LING 2080 - Language of Courts and Crime
- LING 2980 - Conlang - The Art and Science of Language Invention
- LING 3010 - African American English
- LING 3020 - Forensic Linguistics
- LING 3040 - The Politics of Language
- LING 3050 - Communication Across Species
- LING 3090 - Discourse Analysis: Talking and Telling
- LING 4010 - Linguistic Variation
- LING 4020 - Structure of Modern English
- LING 4030 - Acquisition of English as a Second Language
- LING 4050 - Morphology
- LING 4060 - Scientific Methods
- LING 4070 - History of the English Language
- LING 4080 - Teaching English as a Second Language
- LING 4100 - Poetics
- LING 4120 - Migration and Language Contact
- LING 4130 - Discovering Language from Data
- LING 4135 - Python for Text
- LING 4140 - Computational Linguistics
- LING 4380 - Field Methods
- LING 4410 - World Englishes
Foreign Language: 3-12 hours (or proficiency)
Must attain Intermediate II (2050) level (prerequisite for 2050 course is 2040; prerequisite
for 2040 course is 1020; prerequisite for 1020 course is 1010).
Minor (Optional)
Linguistics majors who would like to study cutting-edge practices and technologies
managing linguistic data for computational and quantitative analysis may choose to
minor in Information Science.
Electives
Hours required for electives may vary based on course selection and University Core
Curriculum requirements. Electives may be required to satisfy advanced hour requirement
(42) and/or minimum total hours required for the degree. For specific information
see an academic advisor in the College of Information.
Other Requirements
A minimum grade point average of 2.5 is required on all courses counted toward the
major.
Course Descriptions
These can be found in the UNT Catalog.
Degree Plan
The degree plan for this degree can be found HERE.