Campus at Dusk, with a view of Van Hise Hall

Welcome

Language Sciences is a hub for cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental collaborative research, teaching, service, and outreach related to the scientific study of human language at UW-Madison. Language Sciences houses an undergraduate Linguistics major, a Ph.D. program in Linguistics, and a Linguistics Ph.D. minor. We also offer courses in American Sign Language. Our faculty from across campus are engaged in innovative research projects spanning a broad range of topics and methods of inquiry.