LING at University of Iowa

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 5020Introduction to Phonologyopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• LING 3010Syntactic Analysisopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• LING 3020Phonological Analysisopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• LING 4040The Structure of Englishopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• LING 6010Syntactic Theoryopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• LING 4050Methods of Teaching English as a Second Languageopens 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 35 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 39 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.

• 4 courses deep, ending at LING 4292

  1. LING 3001Introduction to Linguistics
  2. LING 3010Syntactic Analysis
  3. LING 4291Statistical and Experimental Methods in Linguistics I
  4. LING 4292Statistical and Experimental Methods in Linguistics II

• 4 courses deep, ending at LING 5070

  1. LING 3001Introduction to Linguistics
  2. LING 4040The Structure of English
  3. LING 4050Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 6020

  1. LING 3005Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics
  2. LING 5020Introduction to Phonology
  3. LING 6020Phonological Theory

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 6050

  1. LING 5010Introduction to Syntax
  2. LING 6010Syntactic Theory
  3. LING 6050Language Universals Linguistic Typology

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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