Department of Linguistics
UCLA
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Linguistics is the systematic study of human language in general and of specific languages. Linguists try to understand how languages are put together, how they are alike and how they differ from one another, how they change and how people learn and use them. The Linguistics major at UCLA offers a broad foundation in the discipline based on extensive study of languages.
The study of linguistics may be combined with a specialization in a particular language or other field in the following joint majors: Linguistics and Anthropology, Linguistics and Computer Science, Linguistics and East Asian Languages, Linguistics and English, Linguistics and French, Linguistics and Italian, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology, Linguistics and Scandinavian Languages, and Linguistics and Spanish. The Department also offers an African Languages major.
The UCLA Linguistics Department offers a Minor in Linguistics as well. This minor should be attractive to any student where training in linguistic analysis could be an enhancement to his/her major program and to students who are interested in "language" but do not have time in their undergraduate program to pursue multi-quarter language courses.
Linguistics majors often work in export firms; attend professional schools in law, business and medicine; continue graduate studies in linguistics and related fields; and enter the teaching profession. Knowledge of linguistics is directly applicable to speech therapy, communication, language teaching (including English as a Second Language) and computer text processing. Students with a specialty in phonetics have recently found jobs in computer speech synthesis and speech recognition. Linguistics is a good field to prepare students for any job where general knowledge about language, "logical thinking," and/or skill in one or more foreign languages is useful. The major provides training in analytical thinking, general organizational skills, clear writing, and the ability to discern patterns in complex arrays of data.
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