Certificate Programs

Certificates are available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian Studies, and Spanish. To receive a certificate in one of these options, students must take twelve 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.

The Linguistics Certificate consists of 12 credit hours. The courses that the School will accept for the 12 hours of the certificate are as follows:

  1. LING 2001 Introduction to Linguistics I
  2. LING 3010 Language Evolution
  3. LING 4002 Current Trends in Linguistics
  4. SPAN 3170 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
  5. SPAN 4170 Spanish Applied Linguistics
  6. PSYC 2760 Human Language Processing
  7. PSYC 3011 Cognitive Psychology
  8. PSYC 3790 Introduction to Cognitive Science
  9. PSYC 4200 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology

One LING 3813/4813 course may also count towards the certificate; in addition, 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. 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.

The Linguistics Certificate in Language Processing is a joint collaboration between the School of Modern Languages and the College of Computing (Interactive Computing Division and Artificial Intelligence). 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):

  1. 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)

  1. CS 3240 – Languages and Computation
  2. CS 3600 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  3. CS/PSYC 3790 – Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  4. CS 3801/LING 3813/4813 Special Topics – Students can only count 3 credits of towards the certificate.
  5. CS 4634 – Knowledge-based AI
  6. CS 4641 – Machine Learning
  7. CS 4650 – Natural Language Understanding
  8. CS 4625 – Intelligent and Interactive Systems
  9. CS 4610 – Knowledge Systems
  10. 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).
  11. 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 Georgia Tech catalog and the College of Computing Web site (AI Thread).