Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department at KU offers a full range of degrees: B.A. (http://linguistics.ku.edu/overview), M.A. (http://linguistics.ku.edu/ overview-2) and Ph.D. (http://linguistics.ku.edu/overview-1) The first linguistics courses at KU were offered in 1957. In 1968, Linguistics became a department and was authorized to offer a Ph.D. degree. Today, the unique strength of the Linguistics department is the systematic pairing of theoretical and experimental investigations of linguistic knowledge. Its nucleus of full-time faculty members in Linguistics (http:// linguistics.ku.edu/faculty-1), plus several actively involved faculty members in other departments (http://linguistics.ku.edu/faculty-affiliates), serves a student body of about 35 graduate students, 80 undergraduate majors, and many non-majors taking introductory and intermediate courses each semester.