33 hours (thesis option) 36 hours (non-thesis option)

Apply to the UGA Graduate School and include the following: 3 Letters of recommendation CV or Résumé Statement of Purpose (a writing sample that illustrates the skills and types of research you wish to conduct while pursuing your graduate degree) Writing samples should be academic in nature and are normally a paper submitted for a course. Submissions must be in English. Applicants will be prompted to submit this sample during the Graduate School's online application process. Academic transcript. Successful applicants for the M.A. and Ph.D. programs typically have undergraduate GPAs well above 3.0. Applicants will have the opportunity to upload unofficial, scanned transcripts as you apply on the Graduate School's website. If further unofficial transcripts are required, applicants should contact the Graduate School. Email to gradadm@uga.edu. In the event that applicants are recommended for admission, they will be asked to provide official transcripts to the Graduate School.

An applicant's degree(s) need not be in Linguistics, but coursework or experience relevant to Linguistics is strongly preferred. International students: For students whose primary language is not English, proof of English proficiency is required. Students need to submit official university documents according to the UGA Graduate School requirements. Students will also have to show certificate of finances upon acceptance to the program. International students must provide proof that they can fund their education before they can be offered admission. You will be prompted to submit this documentation during the Graduate School's online application process. Application deadline is January 1 for the following fall.

LING 7300  *

Master's Thesis

3-9

LING 8021

Phonetics and Phonology

3

LING 8101  (2 hours)

Linguistics Colloquium

1

LING 8150

Generative Syntax

3

*Thesis students only

Choose 1 course(s) from the following:

LING 4022/6022

Advanced Phonetics and Phonology

3

LING 4160/6160

Compositional Semantics

3

LING 8120

Morphology

3

LING 8160

Advanced Generative Syntax

3

LING 8170

Seminar in Syntax/Semantics

3

LING 8180

Seminar in Phonetics/Phonology

3

Choose 1 course(s) from the following:

LING 4175/6175

Second Language Acquisition

3

LING 4690/6690

Historical Linguistics

3

LING 4710/6710

Languages in Contact

3

LING 4860/6860

Sociolinguistics

3

LING 8280

Seminar in Second Language Acquisition

3

LING 8680

Seminar in Historical Linguistics

3

Thesis Option

Choose 15 credit hour(s) from the following:

LING 9010  (6 hours max.)

Directed Readings in Linguistics

1-3

Elective graduate courses (excluding LING7000 and LING7300) chosen with approval of the Graduate Coordinator and the Major Professor.

Non-Thesis Option

Choose 21 credit hour(s) from the following:

LING 9010  (6 hours max.)

Directed Readings in Linguistics

1-3

Elective graduate courses (excluding LING 7000 and LING 7300) chosen with approval of the Graduate Coordinator and the Major Professor.

GRSC 7001

GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar

1

Required for students who are selected for Teaching Assistantships:

GRSC 7770

Graduate Teaching Seminar

1-3

The program of study must include at least three courses (9 hours) in a primary area of concentration and two courses (6 hours) in a secondary area of concentration, to be determined in consultation with the student's Major Professor and the Graduate Coordinator. The areas of concentration may include any courses included in the list above, as well as elective courses and LING9010 Directed Readings. M.A. students must achieve one research skill. Courses taken to satisfy this requirement cannot be counted among the courses on the student's Program of Study if they are undergraduate courses.

Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.

Graduates have gone on to PhD programs, as well as careers in education and industry (e.g., as language teachers in public school systems or data analysts).

Fields where linguistic training can be applied include: Industry (e.g., speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, user experience research, and computer-mediated language learning) Government (the Foreign Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defense, and the Department of Education all hire linguists; similar opportunities may exist at the state level) Education (teaching [including teaching English as a second language], development of instructional materials, educational research) Advertising, branding, and marketing Editing, publishing, and technical writing Translating and interpreting Linguistic consulting for professions such as medicine or law.

Qualified students will be nominated by the Graduate Program Committee for Graduate School Masters Fellows and for the Osbourne Fellowship (when available). Students also are encouraged to seek outside fellowships and scholarships (e.g., NSF Graduate Research Fellowships).

Students are encouraged to pursue research opportunities outside of Athens, when appropriate and in consultation with their committees.

The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia (LSUGA) is the graduate student organization. In 2014, LSUGA began hosting a yearly conference, the Linguistics Conference at UGA (LCUGA). The organization also publishes two journals. All papers presented at LCUGA are eligible for publication in the Conference Proceedings. The other publication, the peer-reviewed UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, highlights current research by linguistics graduate students and faculty all over the world.

Other Linguistics programs in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, include: PhD Linguistics MA Romance Languages (Romance Linguistics) PhD Romance Languages (Hispanic Linguistics, Romance Linguistics) MA Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics)