New York University College of Arts and Science 30 courses 128 total credits
The Department of German offers a broad range of courses in the language, cultures, and literatures of German-speaking countries. Along with its German language program, the department offers interdisciplinary courses taught in English that address issues of German culture, history, philosophy, art, and literature for students not yet proficient in the German language. The department places high priority on fostering personal contact between faculty and students, maintains small class sizes (15 or fewer students, on average), and offers comfortable spaces for socializing, studying, and holding informal meetings. Advanced courses and some basic language courses are taught by full-time faculty members, all of whom are also involved in student advising. Linguistics is the science of human language. It seeks to determine that which is necessary in human language, that which is possible, and that which is impossible. While linguists work to determine the unique qualities of individual languages, they are constantly searching for linguistic universals—properties whose explanatory power reaches across languages. The discipline of linguistics is organized around syntax (the principles by which sentences are organized), morphology (the principles by which words are constructed), semantics (the study of meaning), phonetics (the study of speech sounds), phonology (the sound patterns of language), historical linguistics (the ways in which languages change over time), sociolinguistics (the interaction of language with society), psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics (the representation of language in the brain). Current research by faculty members extends across the field, including topics in the interaction of syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, languages in contact, pidgin and creole languages, urban sociolinguistics, and computer analogies of syntactic processes. Joint majors with a minimum major and overall GPA of 3.65 are encouraged to complete their honors thesis in either German or Linguistics. This choice should be outlined in a two-page proposal submitted by April 15 of junior year via this form. All prospective honors students in German and Linguistics must consult with both departments' directors of undergraduate studies to confirm eligibility.
General Education Requirements
First-Year Seminar
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EXPOS-UA 1 | Writing as Inquiry | 4 |
Major Requirements
German Courses
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GERM-UA 111 | Conversation/Composition | 4 |
| GERM-UA 152 | Introduction to German Literature | 4 |
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Linguistics Courses
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LING-UA 1 or LING-UA 3 | Language or Language and Mind | 4 |
| LING-UA 11 | Sounds of the World’s Languages | 4 |
| LING-UA 13 | Grammatical Analysis | 4 |
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Sociolinguistics:
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Computational Linguistics:
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LING-UA 6 | Patterns in Language | 4 |
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Psycholinguistics:
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Structure of a Modern Language:
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LING-UA 10 | Structure of The Russian Language | 4 |
| LING-UA 42 | Romance Syntax | 4 |
| LING-UA 44 | Field Methods | 4 |
| LING-UA 9032 | The Structure of French (in French) | 4 |
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