Degree Requirements
- Credit Hours: Students are required to complete a minimum of 30 credit hours at the graduate level. No more than 12 hours of coursework done at the 400 level will be counted toward the degree.
- Grade Point Average: Students must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 and a minimum GPA of 3.0 in courses applied to the degree.
- Graduation Requirement: In addition to completing 30 hours of coursework, students must pass comprehensive examinations or successfully defend a thesis.
- Comprehensive Examinations: The comprehensive examinations are intended to evaluate students’ knowledge, including the ability to synthesize and evaluate ideas in their area of emphasis. The examinations are based on standardized reading lists and coursework.
- Thesis: A student may request to write a thesis and prepare an oral defense. For more information about this option, see the document “Thesis Guidelines.”
- Benchmarks: For details, go to the Linguistics Degree Progress tab
- Additional Requirements:
- Students must satisfy the foreign language requirement by the time they graduate:
- Students in the major in Linguistics who are native speakers of English must demonstrate proficiency in a second language prior to graduation by completing one language course of level 204 or above, with a grade of B or better, or by taking the departmental placement examination in one language and placing above the 204-level.
- International students whose native language is not English are considered to have satisfied this requirement by virtue of their TOEFL or IELTS score.
- Students must satisfy the foreign language requirement by the time they graduate:
M.A. Major in Linguistics Curriculum
Code | Title | Hours |
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CORE COURSES: | 24 | |
Phonology | ||
Syntax | ||
Methods of Research | ||
Advanced Phonology | ||
Advanced Syntax | ||
Select 3 courses from the following list: | ||
Structure of Modern French | ||
Structure of Spanish | ||
History of Linguistics | ||
Sociolinguistics | ||
Discourse Analysis | ||
Cognitive Foundations of Language | ||
Language Typology | ||
Psycholinguistics | ||
Spanish Prosody | ||
ELECTIVES: | 6 | |
Select 2 courses from the following list: | ||
American Culture | ||
The Teaching of Foreign Languages | ||
Second Language Reading | ||
English as a Second Language Methods | ||
Teaching Foreign Language in College | ||
English as a Second Language Theory | ||
Second Language Writing | ||
Language Assessment | ||
Literacy in a Second Language | ||
English as a Second Language Linguistics | ||
Applied Linguistics | ||
English as a Second Language Phonetics | ||
Research (up to 6 credits) * | ||
Total Hours | 30 |
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No more than six hours of thesis credits (697) can be applied to the degree.
Major Learning Outcomes
Linguistics
Upon completion of the M.A. in Linguistics, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of cognitive foundations of language.
- Explain the concepts of syntactic and phonological theory.
- Analyze relevant linguistic data by using the tools of syntactic theory and argue for the appropriateness of the analyses.
- Provide informed descriptions of phonetic and phonological data.
- Apply phonetic, phonological, and syntactic knowledge to the study of language in use.
- Describe languages in terms of their structural characteristics.
- Communicate the results of research in the field in oral and written formats.