Bachelor of Arts in English - Applied Linguistics

University of Houston

The Department of English advances the intellectual and cultural life of our thriving global city and furthers a national and international dialogue on narrative, poetics, history, and culture. Our faculty in literature, creative writing, rhetoric and composition, linguistics, and folklore produce scholarly and imaginative works that bridge a wide spectrum of disciplinary fields and shape our social surroundings. We educate students to be active, innovative citizens in an information age defined by cultural diversity, interconnection, and boundless interactive possibilities.The Applied Linguistics concentration offers students a wide base of theoretical and practical knowledge in several fields of the study of language. Advanced courses in the degree focus on sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological approaches to language use, language teaching and learning, language and migration, language in politics/the politics of language, and language online & in multiple modes.