JAPANESE
LINGUISTICS
The goal of the Japanese
program is to equip students
with functional proficiency in
the language as well as cultural
literacy and knowledge about
Japan. Students complete
courses that focus on various
aspects of Asian cultures,
including East Asian history, arts,
literature, and the humanities.
The program employs
proficiency-oriented approaches
to teaching Japanese and
emphasizes cultural and
communicative competence in
speaking, listening, reading, and
writing.
Linguistics is the scientific study
of language. Students become
adept at noticing what people say,
aware of the unconscious choices
implicit in this, and are able to
provide a rigorous explanation
of how such choices are made.
Linguistics is one of the principal
areas of cognitive science and
is closely allied with many other
fields of study, including cognitive
psychology, speech and language
pathology, the social sciences,
education, computer science,
philosophy, and the study of
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