LING at George Mason University

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.

• LING 338Semantics and Pragmaticsopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• LING 538Semantics and Pragmaticsopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• LING 638Semantics and Pragmaticsopens 1 course (0.5 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 56 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 28 more LING courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on LING, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

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 342

  1. LING 306Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
  2. LING 338Semantics and Pragmatics
  3. LING 342Second Language Acquisition

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 643

  1. LING 506Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
  2. LING 538Semantics and Pragmatics
  3. LING 643Psycholinguistics

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 314

  1. LING 300Linguistic Variation
  2. LING 314Experimental Methods

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 333

  1. LING 331Phonetics
  2. LING 333Phonology B.

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for LING yet.

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 GMU campus feed.