In Linguistics you gain a better understanding of the function of language in society and develop the skills essential for exciting careers in language pathologyaudiology, language teaching, speech recognition and artificial intelligence, forensics, translation, interpretation, publishing and many others.<br>You will learn how language functions in the lives of individuals, groups, and societies. You will study the basic nature of human language such as speech sounds, characteristics of word and sentence structure, geographical and historical variation of languages and dialects. You will learn about the cognitive aspects of language in child language development, language processing, language learning, writing, and reading.<br>Study and work abroad programs<br>Excellent study and work abroad opportunities are available to you and credits earned abroad may be applied to your degree.<br>Class size<br>Medium class sizes create a high-quality learning environment that maximizes interaction among students and professors, as well as between peers.