Do you love how words sound, where they come from? Do you like finding patterns, making sense of things that seem random? Are you fascinated with human behavior interaction, including your own? Then, you\u2019re a born linguist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Linguistics isn\u2019t just about learning languages, it\u2019s about the way language works. How we use it to create social order, enact identities, build community, or undermine it. Students often describe their first linguistics course at Macalester as mind-blowing: a door opened to a world you\u2019ve never seen, that you can never not-see again. Your new knowledge and skills will prove invaluable, whether you pursue computational linguistics or speech pathology, or any career that benefits from an understanding of human behavior. (So, basically, every career.)<\/p>\n\n\n In a metropolitan area where thousands of languages and dialects are spoken and sung and danced to\u2014even a city bus is a classroom. In the Macalester linguistics lab, you\u2019ll have access to state-of-the-art tools for recording and analysis; your final project can even be a student broadcast. And here, the study-away options are nearly endless. Whether you want to know more about Arabic, Khmer, Spanish, M\u0101ori, and\/or the ancestral language of your own family, you\u2019ll have the opportunity.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Why Macalester? Just listen.<\/h2>\n