Certificates

Certificates are available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Linguistics, Russian Studies, and Spanish. To receive a certificate in one of these options, students must take 12 semester hours of courses beyond the 2001 course. Students may transfer a maximum of 6 credit hours towards the certificate requirements with the approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.All courses counting toward a certificate must be taken on a letter grade basis, and a grade of C or better must be received in each course.

Linguistics has two tracks, each consisting of 12 credit hours. Track A is focused on Linguistics related to Languages and the new Track B is the Linguistics Certificate in Language Processing, a joint certificate with the School of Interactive Computing.
Track A:

• LING 2001 or LING 2002 Introduction to Linguistics I and II
  
• LING 3010 Language Evolution
  
• LING 4002 Current Trends in Linguistics
  
• SPAN 3170 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
  
• SPAN 4170 Spanish Applied Linguistics
  
• PSYCH 2760 Human Language Processing
  
• PSYCH 3011 Cognitive Psychology
  
• PSYCH 3790 Introduction to Cognitive Science
  
• PSYCH 4200 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology

One LING 3813/4813 course will also count for the 12 hours of the certificate. The School of Modern Languages will also accept one linguistics course on the 3000 or 4000 level taken at Emory University or Georgia State University. Students wanting to take such a course at either university need to clear its acceptability with the linguistics advisor at Georgia Tech, Dr. Marianne Mason.

Linguistics Track B:

The Linguistics Certificate in Language Processing is a joint collaboration between the School of Modern Languages and the School of Interactive Computing.

The twelve-credit certificate is designed with computer science majors in mind who have an interest in linguistics and natural language processing. The requirements of the certificate may be fulfilled by completing the following courses:

Required Course (3 credits):

LING 2001 – Study of Language – Introductory course that consists of a survey of fields in linguistics: phonetics/phonology, morphology/syntax, semantics/pragmatics, language variation, and computational linguistics/natural language processing.

Electives Chosen from the Open Course List/Thread* (9 credits)

CS 3240 – Languages and Computation

CS 3600 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

CS/PSYC 3790 – Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

CS 3801/LING 3813/4813 Special Topics – Students can only count 3 credits of towards the certificate.

CS 4634 – Knowledge-based AI

CS 4641 – Machine Learning

CS 4650 – Natural Language Understanding

CS 4625 – Intelligent and Interactive Systems

CS 4610 – Knowledge Systems

CS 8803 – Natural Language Processing – This is a graduate level course that only some pre-approved undergraduates can take (with prior approval of the NLP professor).

LING 3/4XXX – Linguistics Elective

*Other courses listed under the AI thread or in Linguistics may also count with prior approval from the linguistics advisor. Some of the CS courses may have prerequisites established by the College of Computing. Consult the GaTech catalog and the College of Computing website (AI Thread).

Faculty Contact Person:

Dr. Marianne Mason, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Advisor for the Certificate in Linguistics and Language Processing.

Email: marianne.mason@modlangs.gatech.edu

Faculty and Collaborators

College of Computing

Dr. Aaron Bobick, Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing.
Dr. William E. Underwood, Principal Research Scientist. Georgia Tech Research Institute (ITTL).
Dr. Ashwin Ram, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing.
Dr. Charles Isbell, Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing. UCC Chair.

School of Modern Languages

Dr. Rumiko Shinzato-Simons, Professor (Japanese and Linguistics).
Dr. Angela Labarca, Professor (Spanish and Linguistics).
Dr. Kyoko Masuda, Assistant Professor (Japanese and Linguistics).
Dr. Cecilia Montes-Alcala, Assistant Professor (Spanish and Linguistics).
Dr. Rajaa Aquil, Assistant Professor (Arabic and Linguistics).

Students who have completed the requirements for any of the above certificates may submit their certificate request electronically.