Romance Linguistics Graduate Degree Requirements
The University requires that for an M.A., the student must have
a minimum of 36 credits, 27 of which must be course credits. At
least 18 of the total 36 credits must be for work numbered 500 or
above, and at least 9 of these 18 must be course credits. No student
may register for more than 10 credits of Linguistics 700 (M.A. thesis
credit) per quarter. For other University requirements, please consult
the General Catalog.
Departmental requirements are as follows:
- Entrance requirement of substantial upper division coursework
in a Romance language or equivalent
- 3 courses in syntax and phonetics/phonology
- ROLING 402, ROLING 551
- LATIN 300
- 6 more linguistics-related courses at the 400 or 500 level:
One of those must be FR/SPLING 4XX and at least two of these must
be 500-level classes for which papers or projects are required.
LING 504-5-6-7-8-9 do not qualify for this requirement. (Also,
note the University requirement for 9 course credits at the 500-600
level).
- An M.A. exam in any areas in which the grade point average
(for the required course work in that area) is below 3.3.
- A short M.A. thesis (from about 30 to no more than 50 pages),
which will typically be an expansion of a term paper. Students
must register for 9 credits (total) of Ling 700 (M.A. Thesis).
NOTE: No course taken to fulfill course requirements can be taken
for the 2-credit (no paper) option.
For students entering the M.A. program with a B.A. in linguistics:
The requirements will normally be the same as those for any other
M.A. students. However, since they will typically be able to start
at the higher-level courses, they will have the ability to take
more advanced courses earlier (and thus have the opportunity to
improve their breadth and/or get through the program more rapidly).
Students with an M.A. in Romance linguistics are encouraged to
apply directly to the doctoral program. The M.A. is a minimum requirement
for admission to the Ph.D. program. For those
holding an MA in Linguistics or a closely related field with
overlapping coursework, admission to the Ph.D. program
may be granted unconditionally or with the stipulation that one
or more M.A.-level deficiencies be made up.
Admission of students receiving an M.A. from our department to
our Ph.D. program is not automatic. Students who have completed
their M.A. must see the Graduate Program Coordinator and submit
a letter requesting admission to the Ph.D. program. The letter should
contain the name of the faculty member who has agreed to chair the
Ph.D. Supervisory Committee. The faculty will then consider the
student for the Ph.D. program.
Requirements for the Ph.D. are an M.A. degree plus the
following:
- 35 additional credits of linguistics-related coursework. (These
courses do not necessarily have to be offered within the Linguistics
Department). At least 18 credits of coursework at the 500 level
and above must be completed before the General Exam, 9 of which
must follow the M.A. A minimum cumulative grade point average
of 3.00 is required for graduate coursework. One year (3 quarters)
of full time registration is required by the Graduate School.
i. No course fulfilling any of the above requirements can be taken
for the 2-credit (no paper) option
ii. 27 credits of Linguistics 800 (doctoral dissertation)
- During the course of the entire M.A.-Ph.D. program, the student
must have completed at least 3 courses each in syntax and phonetics/phonology,
and 2 in Historical Romance, and have taken a total of 5 500-level
classes for which papers or projects are required (LING 504-5-6-7-8-9
do not qualify for this requirement).
- Language requirement, as follows:
i. The completion of LATIN 301
ii. The demonstrated ability to read the linguistic literature
in a second Romance language
- Two linguistics papers delivered at a colloquium or conference.
- After admission to the Ph.D. program, the student will constitute
a Ph.D. committee, in accord with Graduate School requirements.
The student's Ph.D. committee will administer a General Examination,
which involves two parts.
i. Two generals papers in different areas. At least one of the
papers must be in some area of grammatical theory and one must
be in the project dissertation area. (One of the two papers, of
course, can fulfill both the grammatical theory and the dissertation
area (requirements). At least one of the student's Ph.D. committee
members must have expertise in each of the chosen areas.
ii. An oral examination in which the candidate is questioned on
the two papers. The oral examination may not be scheduled until
the committee has read the two papers and approved them as passing.
- Within six months of the oral examination, the student will
present a formal dissertation proposal to the subset of Ph.D.
committee members who constitute the Reading Committee along with
a proposed calendar for completion of the dissertation.
- A Final Exam on the dissertation attended by the candidate's
Supervisory Committee and open to others interested.
- A dissertation suitable for publication.
- All degree requirements except for the dissertation and the
two colloquia or conference papers must be completed before the
Final Exam. A minimum of two academic years of resident study
must be completed prior to scheduling the General Exam. Finally,
the Graduate School requires that, among other things, the recipient
of a Ph.D. must register for at least three years, one
of which must be full time. The full time year may occur
before entering the Ph.D. program.
If you have any further questions or comments please contact us
at phoneme@u.washington.edu
Last modified 2/23/04 by Joyce Parvi
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