Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Linguistic Studies
Director:Jaklin Kornfilt
This program provides the student with intensive and advanced education in linguistics and language-related study. The student works under the guidance of a supervisory committee in one of several concentration areas:
- teaching English as a second language;
- linguistic theory;
- logic and language;
- language acquisition;
- language, culture, and society;
- information representation and retrieval.
To a large extent, programs are tailored to the needs of the individual student.
Program Requirements
The M.A. degree requires 30 credits of graduate coursework in a concentration area as approved by the supervisory committee for that area. A thesis may be substituted for six credits of coursework with the approval of the committee. A comprehensive written examination on the material covered in coursework is required. Students submitting a thesis will be orally examined on it.
