LING at Brown University

A suggested order for the 23 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LING coursework.

• CLPS 1310Phonologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CLPS 1311Phoneticsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CLPS 1331Linguistic Variation and Universalsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LING 1200Phonologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LING 1210Phoneticsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LING 1311Linguistic Variation and Universalsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate LING work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 23 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more LING courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in LING. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 1870

  1. CLPS 0030Introduction to Linguistic Theory
  2. CLPS 1310Phonology
  3. LING 1870Linguistic Field Methods

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 1160

  1. ANTH 0800Sound and Symbols: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
  2. LING 1160Boom! Pop! $%#@!: Iconicity and Expressivity in Language

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 1200

  1. CLPS 0300Introduction to Linguistics
  2. LING 1200Phonology

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on LING sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• F. Kpogo
• Jaime Benheim
• Pauline Jacobson
• Peter Grishin
• Scott AnderBois
• Uriel Cohen Priva

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LING yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

LING does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Brown campus feed.