该系的语言，文化与社会专业是一门跨学科学位课程，专注于社会文化语言学，结合了社会语言学，语言人类学和相关领域的各个方面。特别推荐给打算攻读与社会文化语言学相关的学位的学生，以及对职业感兴趣的学生，以使他们能够将语言，文化和社会问题结合起来。
The Linguistics Department offers degrees with an emphasis in a variety of modern languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Slavic (Russian), and Spanish. These emphases allow you to combine a strong foundation in linguistics with the close study of a particular language. The language emphases are especially recommended for you if you plan to pursue graduate study of linguistics within a modern language department and if youre interested in careers involving a high degree of language ability and knowledge of linguistic structure, including international careers.