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.