After SPAN 300
Gateway: SPAN 300
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’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 79 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 45 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.
Gateway Course1 required
Core Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
One course each from three of the following four pairs (total of three courses):; Five additional linguistics courses chosen from the following lists:; Up to five LING courses numbered 200 to 699, excluding LING 400; No more than two courses chosen from:
Core Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
One course in archaeological method and theory:; Two courses in archaeological practice.; One must be a laboratory course:; One must be a field school (may be satisfied with a minimum of 3 hours of transfer credit):; Six courses from the list below; must include offerings from at least two departments
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.
4 courses deep, ending at LING 597
4 courses deep, ending at LING 715
3 courses deep, ending at LING 529
3 courses deep, ending at LING 538
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All LING courses in the UNC 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 UNC campus feed.