LING at McGill 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 331Phonology 1opens 9 courses (7.5 directly)
• LING 371Syntax 1opens 8 courses (6.5 directly)
• LING 320Sociolinguistics 1opens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LING 360Introduction to Semanticsopens 3 courses (2.3 directly)
• COMP 345From Natural Language to Data Scienceopens 3 courses (0.6 directly)
• LING 345From Natural Language to Data Science opens 3 courses (0.6 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 58 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 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 545

  1. COMP 345From Natural Language to Data Science
  2. LING 345From Natural Language to Data Science
  3. LING 545Computational Semantics with Neural Networks

• 4 courses deep, ending at LING 640

  1. LING 201Introduction to Linguistics
  2. LING 371Syntax 1
  3. LING 440Morphology

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 410

  1. LING 330Phonetics
  2. LING 331Phonology 1
  3. LING 410Structure of a Specific Language 1

• 3 courses deep, ending at LING 417

  1. LING 201Introduction to Linguistics
  2. LING 360Introduction to Semantics
  3. LING 417Topics at the Interfaces 1

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for LING yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LING yet.

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Department events

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