Coordinator: Magda Oiry
The Department of Linguistics currently offers a Linguistics and Data Science Certificate. This is a 5 course undergraduate certificate that provides a foundation in linguistics, quantitative methods and programming, and builds on it within the study of human language and language technology. Students develop programing skills, understanding of basic formal foundations (e.g. formal language theory and probability theory), and applications in language technology and in the study of human linguistic knowledge. The certificate coordinator is Magda Oiry.
Curriculum for Data Science and Linguistics Certificate
The course requirements are specified below. The first two courses to be completed are an introduction to Linguistics, and an introduction to programming. As the first programming course, students can also elect to take Ling 190D Data Science for Linguistics. Information on the introductory programming courses can be found at https://www.cics.umass.edu/academics/courses
Important:Ling 201 and the programming course are prerequisites for Ling 409, which is itself a prerequisite for Ling 429