UW Linguistics Department Graduate Program

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 the Graduate Degrees Offered page. 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 [phone (206) 543-2320, email uweoreg@ese.washington.edu]. 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 (email: englgrad@u.washington.edu).

Some course work is available in various cooperating departments; among those fields represented outside the department are:

Anthropological Linguistics Applied Linguistics Chinese Linguistics English Linguistics Germanic Linguistics Japanese Linguistics

Linguistics and Philosophy Psycholinguistics Scandinavian Linguistics Semitic Linguistics Slavic Linguistics Southeast Asian Linguistics Speech and Hearing

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.

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.

If you have any further questions or comments please contact us at phoneme@u.washington.edu

Last modified 8/25/04 by Joyce Parvi