This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2024-25.
Minor Requirements
To complete the minor in Linguistics, the student must consult with a member of the advisory committee and/or the director to identify a study path that includes five courses from the list below. The five-course minor will normally include one of the courses listed in section 1 and three or four courses from section 2, with restrictions as outlined below. The courses can be taken in any sequence:
Section 1 - Linguistics Foundations
At least one of the following courses
Section 2 - Electives
Three or Four additional courses selected from among those listed below, subject to the following conditions:
- No more than two courses can be taken in the same department.
- At least two courses must be at the 300 or 400 level. Three or four courses may come from the Other Courses listed below, with two of them at the 300 or 400 level; or one course may be an advanced language course, and the other courses from the Other Courses list, with one of them at the 300 or 400 level. Only one course from the Other Courses list may be an independent study course.
Advanced Language Courses
Advanced language courses taken abroad on a study group also qualify with approval by the director.
- ARAB 301 - Advanced Arabic I
- ARAB 302 - Advanced Arabic II
- ARAB 401 - Topics in Arabic Language and Culture I
- ARAB 402 - Topics in Arabic Language and Culture II
- CHIN 303 - Films and Media
- CHIN 304 - Readings in Social Issues
- CHIN 405 - Reading Chinese Newspapers
- CHIN 406 - Readings in Modern Literature
- FREN 361 - Advanced French Composition, Grammar, and Conversation
- GERM 341 - Advanced Conversation and Composition (Study Group)
- GERM 351 - Introduction to German Literary Studies
- GERM 353 - Proseminar in German Studies
- GREK 301 - Greek Tragedy
- GREK 302 - Aristophanes
- GREK 310 - Homer
- GREK 320 - Greek Historians
- GREK 321 - Thucydides
- GREK 350 - Plato
- ITAL 361 - Advanced Grammar, Composition, and Conversation
- JAPN 301 - Advanced Japanese I
- JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese II
- JAPN 401 - Readings in Japanese I
- JAPN 402 - Readings in Japanese II
- JAPN 455 - Advanced Grammar in Japanese
- LATN 340 - Roman Oratory
- LATN 350 - Roman Comedy
- LATN 360 - Roman Love Poetry
- LATN 370 - Ovid
- LATN 380 - The Roman Novel
- LATN 450 - Cicero and the Roman Republic
- REST 303 - Russian in Context
- REST 306 - Advanced Russian
- SPAN 361 - Advanced Composition and Stylistics
- LATN 430 - Horace
Other Courses
- COSC 480 - Topics in Computer Science : Natural Language Processing
- ENGL 301 - History of the English Language
- NEUR 355/PSYC 355 - Language and Thought
- PHIL 225 - Logic I
- PHIL 342 - Philosophy of Language
- PSYC 250 - Human Cognition
- SPAN 475 - Spanish as a Global Language
- SPAN 476 - Linguistic History of Spain
- WRIT 210 - The Rhetoric of Style
- WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
Linguistics Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Linguistics program catalog page.