Master in Linguistics at Louisiana State University
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Requirements for admission to the Master’s Program include an earned B.A. or B.S. and a score of 1000 on the GRE Exam (Verbal + Quantitative). Immediate entrance into the Doctoral Program requires that the student either hold a M.A. degree in Linguistics or a closely related field, or that the student hold a B.A. in Linguistics with distinction. Otherwise, the student must enter at the M.A. level.
All graduate students in Linguistics at LSU must take the following five core courses:
ENGL/LING 4710 Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits). Introduction to the major fields of linguistic study: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics.
COMD/LING 4150 Phonetics (4 credit hours: 3 hours lecture and 1 hour lab).
Principles of phonemics; articulatory phonetics; description and classification of sounds; transcription at different levels of detail; production and perception.
ENGL/LING 4714 Phonology (3 credits) Introduction to phonology, concentrating on the English language; phonetic and phonemic inventories; feature analysis and rules; examination of linear, non-linear and metrical paradigms.
ENGL/LING 4715 Semantics (3 credits) Approaches to the study of meaning: theories of the lexicon, word-formation and meaning; the interaction between sentence structure and signification; pragmatics.
ENGL/LING 4713 Syntax (3 credits) Basic principles of syntactic structure; topics include constituency, subordinate clauses, coordinate structures, question formation, topicalization and the passive.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MA PROGRAM:
The M.A. requires 36 credit hours of courses, including the five core courses listed above; further courses should be chosen from among approved elective courses. Half of the required 36 credit hours must be at the 7000 level or higher. To complete the program, students pursue either a thesis option or an exam option. Under the exam option, the student takes a written exam set by a committee of three faculty members, followed by an oral exam before the committee, covering material on the written exam. Under the thesis option, the student writes a Master’s thesis and defends it during an oral exam before a committee of three faculty members. Under this option, 6 of the 36 hours required for the degree will be LING 8000 (Thesis Research).
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