Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland is relatively young, having been founded in the mid 1980s, and from its inception the department has been defined by an emphasis on understanding language as a system of the human mind. As a result, the department is currently unusual relative to others in its field. Although the faculty shows substantial methodological diversity (covering theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience), the intellectual goals of the department are unusually cohesive. The faculty believe that continued progress in understanding how the human mind/brain supports language will require a coordinated effort between experts in theoretical, experimental and computational linguistics.
The Department of Linguistics has 12 faculty, 35 PhD students, and around 100 undergraduate majors, plus a number of research staff, postdocs and visiting scholars at any time.
For more information, see the department website.