Linguistics - major

Through this journey, you'll gain the analytical skills needed for job success in a wide range of careers, including computational linguistics, speech-language pathology, education, law, business, academia and nonprofit work.

Bucknell offers a major and minor in linguistics. The major includes a two-semester introductory sequence, intermediate work in theoretical grammar, intermediate work in the cognitive mechanisms of language, an advanced seminar and two electives. Research opportunities are available in the areas of language production and comprehension, language acquisition and theoretical grammar.

Major and minor requirements

As a student of linguistics at Bucknell, you may conduct research in the Linguistics Lab, where students and faculty explore how speakers produce words and sentences.

We examine the fascinating processes of lexical retrieval (finding words), constructing sentences (lining words up in the right order) and making grammatical decisions.

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