Master of Arts in Linguistics Degree
Non-Thesis Option, Applied Stream (39 Sem. Hrs.)
The non-thesis option consists of 39 semester hours of course work, plus comprehensive exams.
A. CORE REQUIREMENTS – 15 Semester Hours |
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Course No. |
Course Name |
Sem. Hours |
Notes |
| LING 560 | Syntax and Semantics | 3 |
Formerly Comm. Analysis |
| LING 580 | Field Methods: Data Management and Analysis | 3 |
Formerly Data Management |
| LING 586 | Advanced Phonology | 3 |
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| LING 650 | Survey of Linguistic Theories | 3 |
New course |
| LING 680 | Advanced Field Methods: Analysis and Writing | 3 |
New course |
| TOTAL | 15 |
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B. APPLIED STREAM –LING 583 plus at least 9 s.h. from the following courses: |
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| LING 513 | Sociolinguistics | 3 |
TESOL program |
| LING 566 | Principles of Sociolinguistics Survey | 3 |
New course |
| LING 582 | Issues in Community Literacy | 3 |
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| LING 583 | Language Programs Design and Management | 3 |
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| LING 584 | Principles of Literacy | 3 |
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| LING 585 | Principles of Translation | 3 |
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| LING 611 | Applied Phonology for TESOL | 3 |
TESOL program |
| LING 612 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | 3 |
TESOL program |
| TOTAL | 12 |
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C. ELECTIVES – At least 12 s.h. from the following courses. |
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| LING 555 | Historical and Comparative Linguistics | 3 |
New course |
| LING 570 | Language and Culture Acquisition: Theory and Praxis | 3 |
Formerly Field Methods |
| LING 576 | Acoustic Phonetics | 3 |
New course |
| LING 581 | Anthropological Linguistics: Ethnography | 3 |
Formerly Ethnography |
| LING 590 | Philosophy of Language | 3 |
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| LING 660 | Problems in Morphology and Syntax | 3 |
New course |
| LING 688 | Tone Analysis | 3 |
New number |
| LING 691 | Discourse Analysis | 3 |
New number |
| LING 695 | Topics in Linguistics | 3 |
May be repeated for credit as topic changes |
| TOTAL | 12 |
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D. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS |
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| TOTAL SEM HRS FOR DEGREE | 39 |
15+12+12 | |