Who should
study Linguistics?
The typical student
of Linguistics is someone who likes studying foreign languages but is more
interested in the languages themselves than the literature written in the
languages. Many students are
attracted to Linguistics by the combination of scientific and humanistic
aspects—the type of thinking that linguists do is objective and logical,
but the object of study is the most human of all phenomena, i.e. Language.
No high schools and
very few community colleges offer any courses in Linguistics per se. For students who are unable to take
actual Linguistics courses before coming to UCLA, the best preparatory work
would be solid study in one or more foreign languages. Courses in logic, the history of
English, or the literature of Old and Middle English would also be useful.
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