The course in Linguistics is meant to offer students a sound grounding in various linguistic concepts in structuralism, distributionalism and transformationalism.  It exposes them to new theories and methodological analysis developed by different schools of thought.  In fact, the main objective here is to help students acquire a general overview of new trends relating to language science.  It will also offer students the necessary tools and techniques for critical thinking in semantics, phonetics, structural and transformational linguistics among others.