Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
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.
Generated from Northwestern University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 4 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more LING courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
Department Courses (12 units)2 required · verify with the official sheet
Introductory courses (2 units); Any two 200-level courses in Linguistics; Methods courses (3 units); 1 course from each of the following categories:; Statistical; Computational; Experimental; Advanced courses (7 units); 7 additional courses beyond the 200 level
Major Requirements (13 units)2 required · verify with the official sheet
3 required introductory courses:; 1 required proseminar; 5 Theme courses, one from each of the five themes listed below.; Theme: Brains & Bodies; Theme: Learning over Lifetimes; Theme: Models & Machines; Theme: Reasoning & Rhetoric; Theme: Collective Cognition; 4 Electives chosen from the Theme lists above or from the Electives listed below
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in LING. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at LING 334-0
2 courses deep, ending at LING 360-0
All LING courses in the Northwestern catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for LING yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under LING yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
LING does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Northwestern campus feed.