The Programme consists of the following:

• Compulsory Courses
• Elective Courses
• MA Dissertation

For the MA in Linguistics, postgraduate students need to attend  and successfully complete 6 courses, three of which are compulsory and three are elective. Each course corresponds to 10 ECTS. Postgraduate students  also need to write a diploma thesis (30 ECTS). The total number of credits (ECTS) required for the MA is 90.

Compulsory Courses:

• Ling 522 – Language Structure and Cognition
• Ling 536 – Sounds and Speech
• Ling 593 – Research Methods

Elective Courses:

• Ling 521 – Issues in Linguistics
• Ling 525 – Syntax
• Ling 527 – Seminars in Linguistics
• Ling 530 – Historical Linguistics
• Ling 531 – Phonetics
• Ling 533 – Phonology
• Ling 540 – Semantics
• Ling 541 – Pragmatics
• Ling 545 – Computational Linguistics and Corpora
• Ling 548 – Discourse Analysis
• Ling 549 – Language Typology
• Ling 550 – Sociolinguistics
• Ling 555 – Psycholinguistics
• Ling 557 – Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Second/Foreign Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
• Ling 558 – Neurolinguistics
• Ling 559 – Speech and Language Disorders
• Ling 590 – Morphology
• Ling 592 – Cognitive Linguistics
• Ling 598 – Supervised Research in Linguistics

Courses can be offered during the fall or spring semester. Students can select some of their elective courses.