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Certificate - Computational Linguistics

The Certificate in Computational Linguistics is an 18 unit program that provides a basic education and a certain amount of practical training in the interdisciplinary field of computational linguistics. It was designed to meet the needs of individuals who desire formal course preparation as language analysts in the environment of human language interfaces in software development. Please contact the linguistics coordinator for advising before beginning this certificate.

To receive the Certificate in Computational Linguistics, students must complete the following 18 units of coursework and fulfill the programming requirement:


Course Requirements

LING 101, LING 111, LING 112, LING 115, LING 124 and LING 16518

Total Units:18

Programming requirement: Demonstrated competence with a programming language, such as PERL, Java script, C, or C++. This requirement may be fulfilled by completing a course at SJSU or a community college, or by providing work demonstrating knowledge of a programming language.

Any matriculated upper division undergraduate or graduate student may pursue this certificate. Non-matriculated students may take the courses through Extended Studies Open University. Students must maintain a 3.0 average in these courses to be awarded the certificate.