Graduate Courses

If a course has the “Instructor Consent” enrollment restriction, please contact the instructor to request a Permission to Enroll (PTE) number. For LING 275, please contact both the instructor and the Graduate Student Affairs Officer.

Not every class is offered every quarter. To see if a class meets in the current quarter or future quarter in the current academic year, as well as the time and location, please go to the Linguistics Department’s Course Schedule page.

LING 59x courses are offered every academic quarter but not listed here.

A number of courses, particularly proseminars, have content that varies from one offering to the next. Please see the pages below for descriptions.

Spring 2026

  • LING 209A - Computational Linguistics I

    Instructor(s): Laurel Perkins

    Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Overview of formal computational ideas underlying kinds of grammars used in theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. Themes include role of recursion, relationship between structure and interpretation (both PF and LF), relationship between grammars and probabilities, and relationship between derivations and parsing. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 210B - Field Methods II

    Instructor(s): Benjamin Eischens

    Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 210A in preceding term. Because different languages are investigated in different years, course 210B can only be taken as direct continuation of 210A in same year. When there are multiple sections, continuation must be in same section. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING C211 - Intonation

    Instructor(s): Sun-ah Jun

    (Formerly numbered 211.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 102 or 103, and 119A or 120A or 120B. Recommended requisite: course C204A. Survey of intonational theory for English and other languages, with particular emphasis on phonological models of intonation. Students learn to transcribe intonational elements. Concurrently scheduled with course C111. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 216 - Syntactic Theory III

    Instructor(s): Stefan Keine

    Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 201B. Selected topics on syntactic theories of anaphora and quantification from the following areas: typology of binding categories (pronouns, anaphors, etc.); theory of locality conditions in binding theory; parametric variation in binding; quantifier movement; existential quantification and unselective binding; strong and weak crossover; superiority; scope interactions; complex quantifier structures. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

  • LING 222 - Semantic Theory III

    Instructor(s): Jessica Rett

    Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 200C, 201C. Introduction of developments in ontology of formal semantics, including plurals as formal object, events, situations, times, and degrees. Presentation of empirical motivation for these developments, and some cross-domain parallels supporting them. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 239 - Research Design and Statistical Methods

    Instructor(s): Jesse Harris

    Lecture, four hours. Topics include identifying and defining research topics, selecting appropriate research design and measurements, designing student experiments, recording, analyzing, and interpreting data. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 252 - Topics in Syntax and Semantics

    Instructor(s): Dylan Bumford

    (Formerly numbered 252A.) Seminar, four hours. Requisite: course 200B. Specialized topics in syntax and semantics. May be repeated for credit. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

  • LING 260C - Seminar: Phonetics

    Instructor(s): Sun-ah Jun

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 261C - Seminar: Phonology

    Instructor(s): Benjamin Eischens

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 262C - Syntax Seminar

    Instructor(s): Yael Sharvit

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 264C - Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics

    Instructor(s): Jesse Harris

    Seminar, three hours. Special topics may include child language, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, etc. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 265C - American Indian Linguistics Seminar

    Instructor(s): Pamela Munro

    Seminar, two hours; fieldwork, four hours. Presentation of research on American Indian linguistics. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 1 unit. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 275 - Linguistics Colloquium

    Instructor(s): Megha Sundara

    Preparation: completion of requirements. Varied linguistic topics, generally presentations of new research by students, faculty, and visiting scholars. S/U grading.

  • LING 276 - Linguistics Colloquium

    Instructor(s): Megha Sundara

    Designed for graduate students. Same as course 275, but taken without credit by students not presenting a colloquium. S/U grading.

  • LING 422 - Practicum: Phonetic Data Analysis

    Instructor(s): Sun-ah Jun

    Designed for graduate students. Workshop in examination of phonetic data, such as sound spectrograms, oscillographic records, and computer output. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.

  • LING 444 - MA Thesis Preparation Seminar

    Instructor(s): Stefan Keine

    Seminar, two hours. Regular student presentations of MA thesis topics and progress, with discussion and criticism by other students and faculty. Presentations by faculty and guest speakers on topics relevant to professional development, such as abstract writing and conference presentations, preparing manuscripts for publication, curriculum vitae and personal websites, academic and non-academic careers in linguistics. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.

  • LING 495 - College Teaching of Linguistics

    Instructor(s): Stefan Keine, Hannah Lippard

    Seminar, to be arranged. Designed for graduate students. Required of all new teaching assistants. Seminars, workshops, and apprentice teaching. Selected topics, including curriculum development, various teaching strategies and their effects, teaching evaluation, and other topics on college teaching. Students receive unit credit toward full-time equivalence but not toward any degree requirements. S/U grading.