Primary Faculty: Professors EVERETT (Chair), PAULSTON; Associate Professors De KEYSER (Admissions Officer), JUFFS (Director, English Language Institute); Assistant Professor MacEACHERN (Undergraduate Advisor); Lecturers MENASCHE (Associate Director, English Language Institute), TOTH (Director, Language Acquisition Institute); Assistant Instructors JASNOW (Student Advisor, ELI), McCORMICK (Staff Administrator, ELI), McLAUGHLIN (Staff Administrator, ELI), SMITH (Assistant Director, ELI), WENGRYN (Staff Administrator, ELI), WILSON (Testing Supervisor, ELI)

Affiliated Faculty (Adjunct faculty and those with primary appointments in other areas): Professors KAUFMAN (Anthropology), LEVIN (Adjunct), PERFETTI (Psychology); Associate Professor GORDON (Psychology); Assistant Professor SANCHEZ (Adjunct)

Emeritus Faculty: Professor ANTHONY

Research Proficiency: This requirement may be satisfied by electing LING 2000, Research and Thesis, and meeting the thesis requirements set by the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research; or the student, with the approval of the departmental faculty, after a presentation to the departmental seminar, may write a “long paper” under the supervision of a faculty member. The paper will be read by the advisor and at least one other faculty member. (Consult the graduate advisor for complete details.)

Foreign Language Requirement: Proficiency in one foreign language is required for the MA degree. This proficiency should fall into one of two areas: either (1) the ability to do research in sources written in the language: normally the choice would be French, German, Spanish, or Russian; or (2) acquaintance with the sounds and structure of a language, for which any language may be chosen. An examination to ascertain student proficiency in the chosen language will be administered by members of the faculty or by the Language Acquisition Institute.

International students who are not native speakers of English may use English to fulfill the MA language requirement, and the requirement will be fulfilled automatically by the completion of MA course work with a B average.

Changes to the MA Program in Linguistics
Comprehensive Examinations: These are not mandatory. A minimum B+ in all core courses (both departmental core and specialization core) is required; students who do not have a B+ will have the option of repeating the course or taking comprehensive examinations in that area.

Long Paper Proposals: These will be evaluated by a committee of three faculty members, one of whom must be from outside the student’s area of specialization.

Course Requirements: For Applied Linguistics, the required course work is described below. For all other areas of specialization, it remains to be decided upon.

1. 1950 Introduction to Linguistics
2. Core courses in Linguistics (9 credits):
   • 2578 Phonetics and Phonemics
   • 2579 Phonology
   • 2777 Introduction to Syntax
3. Core courses in Applied Linguistics (12 credits):
   • 2139 Approaches and Methods in Second Language Teaching
   • 2144 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
   • 2146 Second Language Acquisition

       At least one course chosen among the following:

2147 Current Issues in Second Language Learning
267 Sociolinguistics
2945 Psycholinguistics

4. Electives (9 credits)
   

This brings the total required course work to 30 credits, excluding LING 1950.

Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
A Certificate in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages is offered by the Department of Linguistics. Candidates for the certificate should be in a graduate program of the University or should have completed a master's or PhD degree. An application form for admission is obtainable from the department's admissions officer. LING 1950, Introduction to Linguistics, or an equivalent course is a prerequisite. It may be taken concurrently with the first certificate course in which the candidate enrolls. The following requirements must be fulfilled by any student who wishes to earn the certificate: Linguistic Structure of English, LING 1738; Approaches and Methods in Second Language Teaching, LING 2139; Techniques and Procedures of TESOL, LING2142; Second Language Acquisition, LING2146; and Practicum in Second Language Teaching, LING2195. In addition, the student must take one of the following courses: Psycholinguistics, LING 2945; Sociolinguistics, LING2267; Current Issues in Second Language Learning, LING 2147. (Note that 2945 or 2267 may also count as one of the five required linguistics courses for the MA degree, and all certificate course work counts toward the credit requirements for a graduate degree in linguistics.)

All required courses must be passed with at least a B grade.

Each candidate who is not a native speaker of English must also achieve a score of 580 or higher on the TOEFL examination or its equivalent, and must have good spoken English ability (as determined by an interview test). Native speakers of English must satisfy a foreign language requirement: they must have classroom foreign language experience equivalent to at least one year of college-level study.

Students from outside the Department of Linguistics must complete a TESOL Certificate Plan of Studies form and submit it to the TESOL Certificate advisor after consultation. On completion of all TESOL Certificate requirements, a transcript must be submitted to the Department of Linguistics. The certificate is officially awarded only when the student has also completed all requirements for–or has previously received–the MA or PhD degree and completed an Application for Graduation form.

Doctoral Degree Requirements
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences requires a minimum of 72 credits beyond the BA for a PhD degree. Specific departmental course requirements will be set in individual cases by the departmental faculty, depending on the student's interests and prior background in linguistics.

By the end of the third term of doctoral study, the student is expected to have established his/her eligibility to continue toward the degree by passing the required preliminary screening examination.

Two foreign languages are required for the PhD degree. Proficiency in these languages will be demonstrated by examination. In addition, the department requires either previous knowledge of, or one term of study with a grade of at least a B in, some language that is not Germanic, Romance, Slavic, or Greek, unless one of the two languages chosen for examination falls into this category.

A comprehensive examination precedes admission to candidacy and dissertation research. This examination consists of written and oral sections and covers the following areas: (1) linguistic theory and methodology, including descriptive analysis, and (2) area of specialization–a particular group of languages, an interdisciplinary area such as Native American linguistics, or a subfield such as sociolinguistics, or second language acquisition.

Additional information can be found in the General Degree Regulations section of this bulletin and in the department's newsletter, which can be obtained upon request from the departmental Graduate Secretary.

English Language Institute: The English Language Institute offers courses in English as a foreign language to students for whom English is not the native language. Three-credit courses are offered, LING 0008, 0009, 0010, and also non-credit intensive courses in English. The ELI also offers courses for the School of Engineering and the Department of English, and conducts proficiency tests of international TA/TFs for the Office of the Provost.

Language Acquisition Institute: The Language Acquisition Institute offers instruction in uncommonly-taught languages. The languages taught in any given term are determined by availability of native-speaking instructors and materials and availability of funds. In a typical Fall or Spring Term, about 15 languages will be offered to over 275 students. The most popular course is currently American Sign Language; other languages that have been taught recently are Arabic, Aymara, Dutch, Finnish, Modern Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Quechua, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Language Laboratory: The Language Laboratory is administered by the Department of Linguistics on behalf of all the language departments.

Courses of collateral interest are offered in the foreign language departments, in the Departments of Anthropology, Computer Science, English, Philosophy, Psychology, and Communication, and in the Schools of Education and Information Sciences. The facilities of the University's Computing and Information Services (CIS) are also useful for certain kinds of research in linguistics.

In addition to the preceding, the department periodically offers specially arranged programs for EFL teachers from abroad.