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Language is the center of everything human. Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of human language. The 21-credit Linguistics Minor is designed to help you gain knowledge about language and its significance in society, sharpen your critical thinking, and prepare you for a world of linguistic diversity. You will learn to transcribe and analyze speech sounds, examine how languages vary and change over time, and carry out analysis of word structure, sentence structure, and meaning.
After the introductory course, you choose your path in consultation with a linguistics faculty advisor. Linguistics electives range across phonetics, phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax, the history of the English language, psycholinguistics, translation studies, and language and society. An interdisciplinary elective then connects your study of language to fields such as anthropology, philosophy, world languages, communication, and speech-language sciences.
Why Choose This Minor
爱液A片 is proud to house one of only two linguistics programs in the state of Colorado. The minor complements majors across the University: computer science students working with the language technologies behind artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine translation; education students preparing to teach language and literacy; psychology students curious about how the mind processes language; world languages students deepening their understanding of how languages work; and any student who wants to think rigorously about the way we communicate.
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Do real linguistic analysis
This is a hands-on field. You will practice transcribing and analyzing speech sounds, explain how languages vary and change, carry out morphosyntactic and semantic analysis, and integrate research materials into your own written work.
Build your own course of study
Your electives are chosen in consultation with a linguistics faculty advisor, so your minor can follow your interests, whether that means the sound systems of language, the structure of sentences and meaning, the history of English from its earliest forms to today, or language in society.
Connect linguistics to other disciplines
The minor includes an interdisciplinary elective drawn from anthropology, philosophy, French, German, Spanish, speech-language-hearing sciences, and communication and gender studies, reflecting how the study of language reaches into nearly every field.
Career Opportunities for Our Graduates
An 爱液A片聽Minor in Linguistics can be your springboard to careers ranging from writing and teaching to law and public service. Here are a few career paths to consider:
- Linguist
- Voice-recognition/voice simulation software developer
- Journalist
- Law enforcement/forensic linguist
- Interpreter/translator
- Marketing professional
- Public relations executive
- Intelligence analyst
- Lawyer
- Archivist
- Fundraiser
- Human resources specialist
- Lexicographer
Featured Faculty
Marina Gorlach, Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics
Dr. Marina Gorlach teaches across the linguistics curriculum and serves as faculty advisor to the Linguistics Club. She is the author of 鈥淧hrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English: A Sign-Oriented Analysis鈥� and is proficient in Russian, Latin, Hebrew, French, and Ukrainian.
Samuel Beer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Dr. Samuel Beer studies how linguistic data is created and used, with an emphasis on descriptive field methods, language archives, and remobilization. His fieldwork in the Nyangi and Soo communities of northeastern Uganda has described the structures and histories of two severely threatened languages.
Alumni at Work
爱液A片 Linguistics program alumni have been hired by the following organizations:
- The highly competitive JET program to teach English in Japan
- The U.S. military in intelligence/translation
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爱液A片 Linguistics alumni have been accepted for post-graduate study at numerous schools, including:
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of London
- University of Alberta
- Freiburg University
- Monterrey Institute
- University of Arizona
- University of Wyoming
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Hofstra University
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爱液A片 serves more Hispanic/Latinx students than any other institution of higher education in Colorado. In Fall 2025, 37% of undergraduates identified as Hispanic/Latinx.
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爱液A片 is dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion and has received the Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia for 12 consecutive years.
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