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| Home | About Us | Degree Programs | Concentrations | Faculty & Staff | Students | |||||||||||||||||||
| Linguistics | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Students studying linguistics at UL-Lafayette can select from a broad range of courses, including semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, and first- and second-language acquisition.UL’s nationally recognized Computer Science program, the Departments of Psychology, Modern Languages, and Communicative Disorders all offer courses that permit students to pursue a wide variety of interests and applications. The Lafayette area, with native speakers of Cajun French and varieties of Creole French, provides a rich source of data for students interested in dialectology, languages in contact, Creole studies, and other sociolinguistic phenomena. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Degrees Offered | |||||||||||||||||||
| The English department offers both an M.A. and Ph.D. concentration in Linguistics. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Along with English department requirements , M.A. students with a concentration in linguistics are required to take 9 credit hours from the following course list: | |||||||||||||||||||
| ENGL 405: History of the English Language ENGL 413: Chaucer ENGL 425: Semantics ENGL 452: Language, Culture and Society ENGL 455: Topics in Linguistics ENGL 458: Investigating Text and Talk ENGL 502: Old English Grammar and Readings ENGL 503: Beowulf ENGL 506: Principles of Linguistics ENGL 553: Seminar in Linguistics ENGL 675: Special Topics in Literature and Communication |
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| Along with English department requirements, Ph.D. students with a concentration in linguistics are required to take a series of courses specific to the concentration: | |||||||||||||||||||
| ENGL 506: Principles of Linguistics ENGL 553: Seminar in Linguistics Four of the following: ENGL 405: History of the English Language ENGL 425: Semantics ENGL 455: Topics of Linguistics ENGL 458: Investigating Text and Talk Two of the following: ENGL 502: Old English Grammar and Readings ENGL 503: Beowulf ENGL 553: Seminar in Linguistics ENGL 595: Special Project ENGL 675: Special Topics in Literature and Communication |
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| For more information about the program or application
process, contact: Dr. Claiborne Rice
Linguistics Concentration P.O. Box 44691 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-1327 crice@louisiana.educrice@louisiana.edu |
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| Faculty | |||||||||||||||||||
Mark Honegger, Ph.D. |
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Claiborne Rice, Ph.D. |
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| Michelle Feist, Ph.D. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sample Course Offerings | |||||||||||||||||||
The following courses have been taught
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Graduates majoring or minoring in the Linguistics concentration have found tenure track positions at private and public universities and colleges in Oklahoma, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, Michigan, and Texas. |
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A list of recently placed graduate students is available. |
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Document last revised Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:51 AM
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Department of English · P.O. Box 44691, Lafayette LA 70504
Griffin Hall, Room 221 · english@louisiana.edu · 337/482-6908
