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The Department of Linguistics provides graduate programs for both Master's and Doctoral degrees. The curriculum focuses on theoretical perspectives across all linguistic disciplines, ensuring comprehensive training in five fundamental areas: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and field methods. The department offers specialized courses in its key research domains, including phonetics/phonology, syntax/semantics, descriptive/documentary linguistics, computational linguistics, and signed language linguistics, alongside topics aligned with faculty expertise. Students can also pursue complementary courses in departments like Anthropology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Computer Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Statistics, and various language departments.
Students must have a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the United States or a comparable degree from a foreign academic institution. A grade point average of at least 3.00 in upper-division (junior- and senior-level) coursework and in any graduate work already completed.
The minimum scores considered acceptable for admission by the Graduate School are:
TOEFL: 79 on the Internet-based test (iBT)
IELTS: An overall band of 6.5 on the Academic Examination