Athens,
GA,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
The Ph.D. program offers comprehensive training in linguistics while allowing students to focus on specific specializations, including formal linguistic theory, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and language variation, and historical Indo-European linguistics. Students work with their advisory committees to design personalized study plans emphasizing two specialized fields within these broader categories. These academic plans may incorporate coursework or research from connected fields like computer science, philosophy, or the historical and structural analysis of particular languages.