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Graduate Program Our graduate program is comprised of five tracks of study:
Second Language Acquisition offers a curriculum which treats the theoretical bases for SLA and is particularly directed at training for college-level language teaching. Students may follow established course sequences for French, Spanish, or German, or may assemble an appropriate set of courses to concentrate on another language. The University of Georgia offers M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees in TESOL and Foreign Language Education through the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the College of Education. Language Theory provides training in a variety of foundational areas in linguistics involving the study of language structure and meaning, including the study of theoretical models showing how humans acquire or produce language. Historical Linguistics involves both the methodology for comparison and reconstruction of historical languages and an intense, hermeneutic approach to studying ancient languages individually. Students may acquire a close familiarity with the sounds, grammar, and vocabulary of languages like ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Old Church Slavic, Classical Armenian, Old English, and many others. Language Variation and Sociolinguistics provides its students with training in empirical linguistics, including the study of the methods commonly used in research on language as people speak it. Courses in this track range from "American English" and "Language Use in the African American Community" to "Discourse Analysis" and "Language, Gender, and Culture." Humanities Computing explores the networked computer as a tool for new forms of discovering, annotating, comparing, referencing, sampling, illustrating, and representing texts of all kinds. Specific concerns of HC include electronic text markup, text-focused computer programming and scripting, web-page composition, interactive text, and linguistic corpora, among much else. This degree is intended to prepare students for commercial employment.
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