Bachelor of Arts in General Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. At Queens College we are privileged to explore this most unique of human abilities in what has been called the World’s Language Capital with multilingual and multidialectal students and professors. Our program is distinguished by its undergraduate research component. By majoring in General Linguistics, you will be contributing original knowledge. Some of our students have worked contributed to the CUNY Corpus of New York City English. Others have done research on other major languages spoken in NYC, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish, and West Indian Creoles. Still others have contributed to research on endangered languages brought by immigrants from all over the world, maybe by you, your family, friends, andor neighbors. Whatever your topic(s), you will be gaining the kind of experience developing research questions, determining how best to answer them, assessing sources, managing and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and presenting your findings. These are all abilities that are valued by employers and can give you a leg up on contributing to and leading projects whether or not they touch on language-related issues.