LIN at The University of Texas at Austin

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 LIN coursework.

• LIN 306Introduction to the Study of Languageopens 8 courses (8 directly)
• LIN 344KPhonetics: The Production and Perception of Speech Soundsopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LIN 350Special Topics in the Study of Languageopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LIN 380KPhonology Iopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LIN 380LSyntax Iopens 2 courses (2 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 LIN 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 32 LIN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 48 more LIN 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 LIN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at LIN 321L

  1. C L 315World Literature
  2. LIN 321LAmerican English

• 2 courses deep, ending at LIN 345

  1. LIN 344KPhonetics: The Production and Perception of Speech Sounds
  2. LIN 345Language Change and Language Variation

• 2 courses deep, ending at LIN 350S

  1. LIN 306Introduction to the Study of Language
  2. LIN 350SWord Meaning

• 2 courses deep, ending at LIN 353C

  1. LIN 350Special Topics in the Study of Language
  2. LIN 353CIntroduction to Computational Linguistics

Grade medians

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