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Prospective Graduate
Students
 The
Department of Linguistics at the University
of Colorado at Boulder offers the Master’s
(MA) and doctoral (PhD) degrees. Both
MA and PhD students complete a core of
required courses that provide a firm
foundation in linguistic theory and methods.
MA students elect a program of study
whose main component is 30 semester hours
of courses, at least 24 of them in linguistics.
MA students receive a grounding in linguistic
theory and research methods that provides
excellent preparation for a career in
applied linguistics (e.g., language teaching)
or PhD-level study in linguistics. The
MA program offers both thesis and non-thesis
tracks. Students in both tracks must
pass the MA comprehensive exam at the
end of the second year of MA study. PhD
students prepare for a career in academic
research and teaching or applied linguistics,
completing dissertations in areas of
specialization supported by Department
faculty: description of Native (North)
American and Chadic (Central African)
languages, computational linguistics,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
first language acquisition and functionally
oriented syntax. The goal of the PhD
program is to prepare graduates who can
design and conduct their own empirically
based research programs with a keen eye
to their theoretical implications. For
both PhD and MA students, the Department
provides a high-energy intellectual community
in which learning is facilitated by close
interactions with peers and professors,
outstanding research facilities, lively
classroom discussions and exposure to
the work of eminent thinkers in lectures,
colloquia and conferences that are a
fact of daily life at Colorado’s
premier research institution. You can
find thorough descriptions of the Department’s
graduate programs and the admissions
process on this site by going
to Graduate
Study in Linguistics. For questions
concerning the application process, admissions
criteria, graduate support, research
opportunities and programs of study,
please contact departmental
staff and
your query will be forwarded as appropriate.
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