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University of the Witwatersrand

Master of Arts in Linguistics

The Master of Arts in Linguistics in Language and Culture Studies is offered by University of the Witwatersrand.

Program Length: 2 YEARS.

Master of Arts in Linguistics offered by the University of the Witwatersrand

The Master of Arts in the field of Linguistics is a 1 year full-time or 2 year part-time degree.

Overview

The Masters degree in Linguistics (by coursework or research report, 7000 level) is a significant opportunity for advanced training and application of theory in the broad field of Linguistics.

Students of Linguistics have now reached the position where they can both gain profound theoretical training, and where they can enter more deeply into the messy empirical world of data-gathering than has been possible at earlier Linguistics stages at Wits.

Advanced grounding in Linguistics has been proven to be highly desirable in preparing language professionals for work in translating, interpreting, journalism, publishing, language policy planning. The Masters degree also prepares the student for potential work in allied and rapidly expanding fields such as computational linguistics, linguistic structuring of knowledge databases and digital corpora.

Curriculum

Courses on Offer:

Approved Topic in Linguistics

Advanced Historical Linguistics

Advanced Language, Gender and Sexuality

Advanced Morphology

Advanced Phonetics

Advanced Phonology

Advanced Psycholinguistics

Advanced Sociolinguistics

Advanced Syntax

3 courses (1 required formal course; 2 electives) 1 research report.

Supervision during preparation of research report.