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.
Generated from Pennsylvania State University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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.
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 12 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 20 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.
Prescribed Coursesall required
Prescribed Courses: Require a grade of C or better
Additional Courseschoose 1
Additional Courses: Require a grade of C or better; STAT 200 or appropriate statistics course; Select 6 additional credits in Linguistics at the 400 level (list kept in department); Select 6 additional credits from Linguistics courses and/or approved related fields
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.
3 courses deep, ending at LING 382
3 courses deep, ending at LING 493
2 courses deep, ending at LING 404
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All LING courses in the Penn State catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
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 Penn State campus feed.