Major: Bachelor of Arts

Students who wish to undertake a more intensive program of study, including independent research, should pursue departmental honors. Students should apply for honors by the end of Spring Quarter of their junior year. As part of the application, the student must write a research proposal describing the honors project, which the project advisor must approve. Approval for honors depends on the number of courses in the major a student has taken for a letter grade by the start of the third quarter of the junior year. For students who have completed at least 28 units for a letter grade fulfilling major requirements, only those maintaining a grade point average of 3.3 (B+) or better in these courses are eligible for honors. Students who have taken fewer than 28 units in the major for a letter grade must receive an endorsement from both a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics who will supervise or co-supervise the honors project and a second Department of Linguistics faculty member who can attest to the student’s qualifications for carrying out honors research.

Honors students complete 70 units, including the 60 units for the major, plus ten additional units of Honors Research. In addition, they must complete an honors thesis based on research conducted with a project advisor, who must be a member of the Linguistics faculty, and a second faculty reader, who may, with the approval of the Linguistics Director of Undergraduate Studies, be a member of another department. The thesis must be submitted in its final and acceptable form by the dissertation/thesis submission deadline opens in a new tab. The thesis topic is presented orally at a department Honors Colloquium late in Spring Quarter.