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Small linguistics programs
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| Author: | DAVID WHARTON | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Dear Linguists,
The linguistics program at my university will be undergoing review this year, and I'd like to solicit comments from other linguists on how to make small, interdisciplinary linguistics programs thrive. Like many universities (I suppose), ours does not have a linguistics department, but we do offer a linguistics major and minor; our linguistics program is currently administered by faculty and staff from various departments such as English, Romance Languages, and Anthropology. What I'd like to know is to what extent similar programs at other colleges and universities have been successful at attracting majors, maintaining a vital presence in the intellectual life of their colleges and universities, and -- perhaps most importantly -- garnering the good will and largess of university administrators. If your program has accomplished any or all of these goals, how did you do it? That is, what works best? Conversely, what *doesn't* work, and what kinds of things should such programs avoid? In particular, I'd like to know the fate of linguistics at colleges and universities that do not have either a linguistics department or a linguistics major/minor, but which allow students to study linguistics as one of those ''make-your-own-major'' majors which are common in the United States. I'll post a summary of responses. If you'd like to respond, but do not feel you can do so candidly without endangering yourself professionally, I'll be happy to post anonymous responses, and promise complete confidentiality to those who desire it. Many thanks, David Wharton =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Wharton Department of Classical Studies The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC USA e-mail: whartond@uncg.edu tel.: 336 334 5214 fax: 336 334 5158 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1637 | |
| Date posted: | 18-Nov-1998 | |
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