Overview

Students at the Linguistics BA program from San José State University acquire critical thinking and problem-solving skills and receive excellent preparation for advanced studies in linguistics as well as anthropology, communication, education, law, and speech and hearing. Students with knowledge of more than one language have an excellent background for the study of linguistics.

Graduates with Linguistics from San José State University will be able to:

Transcribe, using the International Phonetic Alphabet, and produce speech sounds of the world’s languages. Apply concepts of acoustic theory in analyses of speech data.

Analyze linguistic sound patterns in terms of their function, their structure, and the pressures that influence their change over time.

Analyze words and their internal structure in terms of their meanings, their sound properties, and the pressures that influence their change over time.

Analyze sentence structure in any language in terms of grammatical relations and constituent structure, and recognize the typological diversity of syntactic phenomena.

Analyze the meaning of words and sentences, elaborate on the role of linguistic and pragmatic context in the interpretation of meaning, and understand the role of theories in the analysis of semantic data.

Identify phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic changes in the history of a language, discuss the contribution of social factors to language variation and change, explain the genetic and typological classification of languages, and use the comparative method to reconstruct ancestors of related languages.

Analyze phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and historical linguistics data.

Critically evaluate competing approaches to the analysis of linguistic data.

Use library and electronic research sources effectively.

Use reading and writing skills effectively.

Demonstrate proficiency equivalent to one-year college level study in a language other than their native language.

Discuss issues in speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language processing, and develop speech recognition, speech synthesis and natural language processing programs.

Evaluate theories of first and second language acquisition, and second language teaching.

Identify language-related social programs in areas such as education, the law, the workplace, etc., and discuss the feasibility of various empirically-based solutions.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Patterns of English

Corpus Linguistics

English as a World Language

Psycholinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Multilingualism and Language Contact

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-12-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-30 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-08-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-12-02 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

San Jose, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Earn the equivalent of a U.S. 3.0 grade point average (GPA) or an average of “B” grades.

Successfully complete three years of college preparatory mathematics with a minimum grade of “C-” or better.

Submit official test scores from an approved English language proficiency test (TOEFL, IELTS).

Submit partial official secondary school (high school) transcripts and final transcripts.

Take SAT or ACT (highly recommended).

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

8846 USD / year

≈ 8846 USD / year
Out-of-State

8846 USD / year

≈ 8846 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

8846 USD / year

≈ 8846 USD / year

Additional Details

Non-resident students pay basic registration fees plus $444 per unit.

Living costs

San Jose

United States

1740 - 3150 USD / month

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