Courses for Fall 2025
LIN 2004. World Languages. This course provides an overview of the wide diversity of the languages of the world. It will familiarize you with the main concepts and themes in linguistics, as well as methods used in linguistic analysis, The course includes brief guest lectures by experts in different languages. Topics include endangered languages, language contact, and language and culture. The course fulfills FSU’s Humanities and Cultural Practice requirement and FSU’s Diversity requirement.
LIN 3041. Introduction to Linguistics I. This course examines what is language and introduces phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.
LIN 3042. Introduction to Linguistics II. Pre-requisite: LIN 3041. This course continues what is language, focusing on differences between human language and animal communication, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics.
LIN 4201. Sounds of the World’s Languages. Pre-requisite: LIN 3041. This course covers sounds and sound patterns in the world’s languages, focusing on sounds occurring both in majority and minority languages, with a special attention to those attested only in certain language families or used for special purposes. This course fulfills FSU’s Scholarship in Practice requirement.
LIN 4623. Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism. This course explores the relationship between language and cognition in individuals who speak and understand more than one language. It examines issues such as spoken language processing, written language processing, language acquisition, and the bilingual brain.
LIN 4040. Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Pre-requisite: LIN 3041. This course provides an understanding of the organization of language, provides tools and techniques for describing language data, and examines various models of linguistic description. This course fulfills FSU’s Upper-Division Writing requirement.
LIN 4930. Special Topics: Second Language Acquisition. This course introduces students to key constructs, theories, and scholarship within the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Topics include the role of input and output in SLA and how individual differences affect language processing.
SPN 4700. Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics. This course examines the origin, development and present-day variation of the Spanish language, and provides an introduction to Spanish linguistics from a theoretical and empirical point of view.
SPN4801. Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking World. This course explores bilingualism with an emphasis on communities in Spain, Spanish America, and the United States.
FRE 4930. Introduction to French Linguistics. In this course, students investigate the sounds (phonetics/phonology), word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), and meaning (semantics/semantics). The course also focuses on linguistic variation and sociolinguistics.