Creating a Computational Linguistics College Degree?

$random_var asks: "I am an undergraduate student currently studying Bioengineering. However, I am growing more and more interested in programming and linguistics, which leads me to think that I should define my own major, Computational Linguistics [mit.edu], which google defines as 'a field concerned with the processing of natural language by computers.' When I present my proposal for this degree to the school's advising staff, I would like to have a complete list of all of the topics this major should cover. Having only little experience with computer science and engineering, I'm not sure what parts of that field I should include. Beyond the basic lower-division courses, what specific fields of computer science do you think should be emphasized in a practical undergraduate study of Computational Linguistics?"

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Copy the syllabus from

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.cstit.cl.cam.ac.uk/lms/pages/current/ho mepages/index.html.

Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology has to be the lamest course name in history but the course itself is very good with both computation and linguistics aspects, as you would expect from Cambridge...