Proseminars are the special topics advanced graduate courses taught in our department, with course numbers in the 250 range. Typically these are prepared lecture courses given by faculty, but with strong student participation. They usually assume that enrollees will have already taken the core graduate courses in the relevant area.
This page reports proseminars being taught in the current academic year. We also include other graduate courses when their content has changed for the current offering. To view current academic year proseminar offerings, as well as the time and location, please go to the Linguistics Department’s Course Schedule page.
For an archive of old proseminar topics, please visit the archive page.
2026-27 proseminar information will be posted here once the information is available.
Fall 2026
LING 251: Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
Jonah Katz & Claire Moore Cantwell
R, 2-4:50 PM
LING 252: Topics in Syntax and Semantics
Dylan Bumford & Yael Sharvit
T, 2-4:50 PM
LING 253: Topics in Language Variation
David Goldstein
W, 9-11:50 AM
Winter 2027
LING 251: Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
Kie Zuraw
T, 9-11:50 AM
LING 254: Topics in Linguistics
Tim Hunter & Laurel Perkins
M, 2-4:50 PM
Spring 2027
LING 252: Topics in Syntax and Semantics
Harold Torrence
M, 1-3:50PM