Language Track

BCS Upper Level Electives: 4 courses

  • At least three chosen from*:
    • BCS 162: Understanding Reading
    • BCS 172: Development of Mind and Brain
    • BCS 221: Audition
    • BCS 233: Speech Recognition and Statistical Language Models
    • BCS 235: Natural Language Processing
    • BCS 259: Language Development
    • BCS 261: Language Use and Understanding
    • BCS 264: Signed Language Structure
    • BCS 265: Language and the Brain

* No more than one 100 level BCS course may be counted as an upper-level elective.

Allied Field Electives: 2 courses

  • Highly Recommended
  • LIN 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
  • and one of:
    • LIN 210: Introduction to Language Sound Systems
    • LIN 220: Introduction to Grammatical Systems
  • Examples of other generally relevant courses:
    • CSC 173: Computation and Formal Systems
    • CSC 242: Artificial Intelligence
    • CSC 244: Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
    • CSC 246: Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
    • LIN 226: Morphology
    • LIN 227: Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
    • LIN 260: Syntactic Theory
    • LIN 261: Phrase Structure Grammars
    • LIN 265: Formal Semantics
    • LIN 266: Pragmatics
    • MTH 165: Linear Algebra with Differential Equations
    • MTH 201: Introduction to Probability
    • MTH 203: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
    • PHL 244: Philosophy of Mind
    • PHL 247: Philosophy of Language

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