Honors Program in Linguistics

See the requirements for Interdisciplinary Honors on the UW Honors Program website.

The following are the requirements for graduation ''With Honors in Linguistics/Romance Linguistics''.

For admission to the Linguistics Departmental Honors Program:

• GPA of 3.3 overall; 3.6 in Linguistics/Romance Linguistics
• Make the request of the Linguistics faculty you would like to have serve as honors faculty supervisor. You must have the permission of a Linguistics faculty before joining the departmental honors program.
• Appointment with Linguistics undergraduate advising to draft a degree plan for completion of Linguistics Departmental Honors requirements. We strongly recommend that students planning to complete Departmental Honors in Linguistics meet with an adviser no later than the beginning of their junior year to discuss the requirements and draft a degree plan.

For graduation from the Linguistics Departmental Honors Program:

• GPA of 3.3 overall; 3.6 in Linguistics/Romance Linguistics
• Coursework required for the regular major
• 9-12 Departmental Honors credits. These can include a combination of:
  • Successful completion of at least one graduate level (i.e., 500-level) Linguistics course in your intended subfield(s) of specialization (see table below for specific courses). These courses may be taught by a faculty member, an adjunct, or a visitor. Normally the instructor for one of these courses should be the same person who agreed to be the honors supervisor. You should plan to complete the 400-level prerequisites for each graduate level course as part of your regular coursework for the Linguistics major. Before registering for the graduate level course, you must obtain permission from the instructor and complete the prerequisites indicated in the table below.
  • LING 499 UG RESEARCH, with permission of the supervising instructor.
  • LING 498 UG HONORS RESEARCH, with permission of the supervising instructor. (See next requirement for additional information about this option.)
• An honors thesis
  • Usually, after producing a term paper for a 500-level graduate course, you will use the next quarter – either on your own without additional course credit or by enrolling in up to 5 credits of LING 498 -- to revise and expand that term paper into an honors thesis under the supervision of the faculty member who taught the graduate level course (or the most appropriate faculty member if the graduate level course was taught by a visitor). A list of recently completed undergraduate Linguistics Departmental Honors theses is available here.