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In addition to advanced coursework in the areas of their major fields, all students must complete the following foundational courses, normally in their first two years:

- **Linguistics 112/212:** Syntactic Theory I/Syntactic Theory II
- **Linguistics 115/215:** Phonological Theory I/Phonological Theory II
- **Linguistics 116/216:** Semantic Theory I/Semantic Theory II
- **Linguistics 117r:** Linguistic Field Methods
- **Linguistics 118:** Historical and Comparative Linguistics (formerly *Linguistics 224*)

Second- and fourth-year students also take **Linguistics 241r:** Practicum in Linguistics. Linguistics 116b is not required of students concentrating in a language-intensive area of historical linguistics.



 

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