A study examines the place of linguistics in undergraduate curricula in the United States and Canada, the nature and structure of the curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in linguistics, and the population served by the curriculum. The final report consists of an overview of the study, including the forms used for the survey; a directory of undergraduate linguistics programs (appendix 1, compiled by F. Heny); a summary of the status of linguistics in the undergraduate curricula (appendix 2); a paper on using existing resources to develop an undergraduate linguistics major (appendix 3, by M. Ohala and A. Zwicky); advocacy statements concerning applied linguistics, clinical linguistics, community outreach, linguistics and the study of literature, linguistics and the teaching of science, linguistics as a cognitive science, linguistics as an experimental discipline, linguistics and its relationship to cognitive science and liberal education, linguistics in the study of information and intelligence, stylistics and poetics, teaching linguistics in an interdisciplinary curriculum, teaching linguistics to non-linguistics majors, and the University of California at Santa Cruz linguistics major (appendixes 4A-40, by P. Angelis et al.). Descriptions of about 30 linguistics courses are given (appendix 5), and a suggested library collection for undergraduate linguistics programs is presented (appendix 6). (MSE)