语言学系提供语言学专业，语言，文化与社会专业，以及许多侧重于语言学专业的专业。该部门还提供多种现代语言的重点：中文，英语，法语，德语，日语，斯拉夫语（俄语）和西班牙语。这些重点使学生能够将语言学的坚实基础与对特定语言的深入研究结合起来。对于计划在现代语言系内攻读语言学研究生的学生，以及对对涉及高度语言能力和语言结构知识（包括国际职业）的职业感兴趣的学生，特别推荐语言重点。
The Linguistics Department's major in Language, Culture & Society and the minor in Sociocultural Linguistics are interdisciplinary degrees that focus on language in its social and cultural context, combining aspects of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication, and related fields. We especially recommend them if youre planning to pursue a graduate degree related to language, culture, and society and if youre interested in careers that connect to these topics. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, including similarities and differences among languages of the world, sound, word, and sentence structure, how language conveys meaning, how languages change over time, how languages are learned, the relationship between language and cognition, and the intersection of language, culture, and society. These concerns have relevance to many other fields. The B.A. in linguistics provides a useful background, not only for advanced work in linguistics itself, but also for graduate study in anthropology, law, sociology, language disorders, cognitive science, speech technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, education, and applied linguistics.