University Catalog 2024-2025

English (MA): Linguistics Concentration

Degree Requirements

Distribution Requirement Courses6
Select six hours of coursework in Literature, Film, or Rhetoric and Composition approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Concentration Requirements24
Linguistics Courses
Select a minimum of five "Linguistics Courses" listed below approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Elective Courses
Select a minimum of three courses from English or complementary fields of study approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Research Course3
Master's Project in English
Total Hours33

Linguistics Courses

Select a minimum of five "Linguistics Courses" approved in conjunction with the academic committee
ENG 523Language Variation Research Seminar3
ENG 524Introduction to Linguistics3
ENG 525Variety In Language3
ENG 527Discourse Analysis3
ENG 528Sociophonetics3
ENG 533Bilingualism and Language Contact3
ENG 534Quantitative Analysis in Sociolinguistics3
ENG 536Research Methods in Phonology3
ENG 584Studies In Linguistics3

Faculty

  • Christopher M. Anson
  • Barbara A. Bennett
  • Belle McQuaide Boggs
  • Kirsti Karra Cole
  • Huiling Ding
  • Robin M. Dodsworth
  • Marsha Gabrielle Gordon
  • Hans Dodds Kellner
  • Christopher Lindgren
  • Jorge Mari
  • LaTanya Denise McQueen
  • Jeffrey Ingle Mielke
  • Jason Miller
  • James S. Mulholland
  • Miriam E. Orr
  • Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
  • Jeffrey Leo Reaser
  • Laura Ruth Severin
  • Carter Sickels
  • Jason Swarts
  • Justin Tackett
  • Anu Thapa
  • Erik R. Thomas
  • Walter A. Wolfram
  • Anne Baker
  • Agnes Bolonyai
  • Helen Jane Burgess
  • Christopher James Crosbie
  • Marc K. Dudley
  • Casie J. Fedukovich
  • Paul Camm Fyfe
  • Andrew Robert Johnston
  • Jennifer Anne Nolan
  • Stacey L. Pigg
  • David M. Rieder
  • Margaret Simon
  • Timothy Linwood Stinson
  • Douglas M. Walls
  • Rebecca Ann Walsh
  • Zachary Charles Beare
  • Michelle McMullin
  • Brian Blackley
  • Anna Marie Gibson-Knowles
  • John J. Kessel
  • James Robert Knowles
  • Jill Collins McCorkle
  • Joseph H. Millar
  • John Paul Stadler
  • Deborah Hooker
  • John J. Kessel
  • Lucinda H. MacKethan

Emeritus Faculty

  • Barbara Baines
  • Anne Baker
  • John Balaban
  • William Wilton Barhardt
  • Phillip E. Blank
  • Michael P. Carter
  • James W. Clark
  • David H. Covington
  • Angela Davis-Gardner
  • Robert S. Dicks
  • Joseph A. Gomez
  • James M. Grimwood
  • Charlotte Gross
  • Antony Howard Harrison
  • Linda Holley
  • Marvin Hunt
  • Susan M. Katz
  • Margaret King
  • Robert Kochersberger
  • Dorianne Louise Laux
  • Lucinda MacKethan
  • Leila S. May
  • Carolyn Rae Miller
  • Catherine E. Moore
  • John Morillo
  • Devin A. Orgeron
  • Ann M. Penrose
  • Carmine A. Prioli
  • Dick J. Reavis
  • Sharon M. Setzer
  • Judy Jo Small
  • Lee Smith
  • Jean J. Smoot
  • Allen Frederick Stein
  • Jon F. Thompson
  • Mary Helen Thuente
  • John N. Wall
  • Catherine A. Warren
  • Harry C. West
  • Robert V. Young