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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington offers programs of study for graduate students leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics and Romance Linguistics. Students interested in the Romance Linguistics programs should view the Romance Linguistics application and degree information found on this page, below the Graduate Degrees Offered heading. The program is administered by the faculty of the Department of Linguistics.

Students not interested in a degree can earn limited graduate credit in linguistics by applying for nonmatriculated or graduate nonmatriculated status. Graduate nonmatriculated admission is handled by the Educational Outreach office. A downloadable/printable version of the graduate nonmatriculated application in PDF format is also available on-line. If the student later chooses to become a matriculated student, he or she may petition to have twelve graduate nonmatriculated credits (3-4 courses) applied to a graduate degree.

The major interests of the core faculty of the Linguistics Department lie in syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics, phonetics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and in theoretical aspects of second language acquisition. Graduate students working in these areas will therefore be best served and feel most at home in the department. Please note that the department does not have a program in language pedagogy or applied linguistics. The MA-TESL degree is administered through the Department of English.

On-line Graduate Program Applications
Please apply to the graduate programs in General Linguistics and Romance Linguistics on-line, as paper applications are no longer available. Be sure to read through the information on the program you are interested in before starting your on-line application. You will still be required to submit by mail your signed copies of the application, test scores, letters of recommendation, transcripts, and writing/speaking samples (if necessary).

General Linguistics Degree Requirements

Romance Linguistics Degree Requirements

Professional Master's in Computational Linguistics

For the Professional Master's in Computational Linguistics, please visit this website for more information.

If you are unable to apply on-line, you may ask by e-mail to phoneme@u.washington.edu for a paper application packet. Please do not ask for a paper application if you are able to apply on-line.

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Special Resources and Facilities

Some of the special resources and facilities at the University of Washington include:
the Language Learning Center, the Middle East Resource Center, and the Speech and Hearing Sciences Laboratory.

Opportunities for study outside the University of Washington are available through Fulbright grants, through the Alaska Native Language Center and through other grants and exchanges.

Languages

Some of the languages taught at the University of Washington are:

Akkadian, Azerbaijani, Classical Arabic, Aramaic, Braj, Bulgarian, Classical and Modern Chinese, Coptic, Cornish (by special arrangement), Czech, Danish, Old English, Finnish, French, Middle High German, Modern German, Old High German, Gothic, Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Hindi, Old Icelandic, Krio, Old Irish (by special arrangement), Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Latin, Manchu, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, West Norse, Norwegian, Pali, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Provencal, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Old Church Slavonic/Slavic, Old Saxon, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Thai, Telugu, Tibetan, Middle Turkic, Old Turkic, Turkmen, Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Ugaritic, Old Uighur, Uighur, Ukranian, Uzbek, Vedic.

University of Washington Department of Linguistics | Box 354340 Seattle, WA 98195-4340 | Phone: (206) 543-2046 | Fax: (206) 685-7978 | phoneme@u.washington.edu

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