Yeah, Truman's linguistics department was only five professors, and some of them taught non-ling courses in other departments; the way it worked was, they had "Topics in Linguistics" and "Advanced Linguistics" as two classes, with rotating focus, that you could take more than once. Except, of course, if you missed one semester's class--like I did with Syntax--it might be two years or more before that topic came around again. I actually brought this up at a university conference with the five profs, and they've been trying to set up at least three rotating-topic classes--which would give every student a chance to do morpholgy, syntax and phonetics/phonology--but they've had problems with turnover that makes it hard to play with the program.
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Date: 2010-03-01 04:19 am (UTC)Yeah, Truman's linguistics department was only five professors, and some of them taught non-ling courses in other departments; the way it worked was, they had "Topics in Linguistics" and "Advanced Linguistics" as two classes, with rotating focus, that you could take more than once. Except, of course, if you missed one semester's class--like I did with Syntax--it might be two years or more before that topic came around again. I actually brought this up at a university conference with the five profs, and they've been trying to set up at least three rotating-topic classes--which would give every student a chance to do morpholgy, syntax and phonetics/phonology--but they've had problems with turnover that makes it hard to play with the program.