Minor in Anthropological Linguistics

The minor in Anthropological Linguistics involves a focused study on the relationship between language and culture. It explores how language shapes social life, influences cultural practices, and reflects human cognition, and identity. 

Students will learn to:

  • Identify language features and explain how they relate to people’s worldviews and identities
  • Discuss how language reflects and influences social issues like race, gender, and power.
  • Compare and contrast different linguistic practices across cultures
  • Apply ethnographic research methods to study linguistic phenomena.

An Anthropological Linguistics minor provides students with an interdisciplinary education that fosters cultural awareness, critical thinking, and communication skills, making them better equipped to navigate multicultural environments and an interconnected world.

Core Courses:

  • ANTH 152: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
  • LING 300: Approaches to Linguistic Analysis or LING 303: Human Language: Defining our Biological Identity (3)
  • ANTH 310: Language and Culture: Anthropological Linguistics (3)
  • ANTH 475: Ethnographic Methods (3)

Electives: Language, Culture, & Identity (Choose two):

  • LING 230: Forbidden Language: Swearing and Taboo Language (3)
  • LING 240: Language and Music (3)
  • LING 250: Language(s) in California (3)
  • LING 314CS: Language in Life: Community-Engaged Linguistics (3)
  • LING 325: Language, Gender, and Identity (3)
  • LING 309: Language and Social Interaction (3)
  • LING 408: Semantics and Pragmatics (3)
  • LING 427: Language in Contact (3)
  • LING 441: Sociolinguistics (3)
  • LING 447: Bilingualism in the US (3)