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Degree Offered: MA in linguistics (applied track).
Length of Program: 2 years. Students are generally full time and begin their study at the beginning of the fall quarter.
Program Requirements: 38 units with thesis; 42 units without thesis. Competence in a language other than English is required for native speakers of English; English meets the requirement for nonnative speakers of English. Practice teaching is required. Either a thesis or a comprehensive examination is required.
Courses Offered: (*required) *Theories of Second Language Acquisition; *Research on Second Language Acquisition; *Individual and Social Aspects of Bilingualism; *ESL Teaching/Tutoring; *The Teaching of ESL; *Materials of TESOL; *Recent Research and Special Projects in TESOL; *Phonological Analysis; *Grammatical Analysis; *Semantics; *Historical Linguistics; *two of the following: Advanced Phonological Theory and Analysis, Advanced Phonetics, Advanced Syntactic Theory and Analysis, Advanced Semantic Theory and Analysis, Principles of Historical Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Modern Linguistic Theory: Structuralism, Modern Linguistic Theory: Generative Grammar, Pedagogical Applications of Second Language Acquisition Theory, English Grammar, Language, Gender, and Society, Biological Basis of Language; Discourse Analysis, Language Variation, Ethnography, the Politics of Multingual Literacies, Local and Global Politics of English and Vernacular Languages.
Full-Time Staff: Raśl Aranovich, Will Benware, Patrick Farrell (chair), Janet Lane, Ellen Lange, Julia Menard-Warwick, Almerindo Ojeda, Orhan Orgun, Vaidehi Ramanathan, John Samsel, Robert Bayley, Lenora Timm.
Admission Requirements: The university requires a GPA of 3.0, three letters of recommendation, GRE scores, and a TOEFL score of 610 for international students.
Tuition, Fees, and Aid: For in-state students, US$4,831 per academic year; for out-of-state students, US$15,735 per academic year. Teaching assistantships, research assistantships, grants, and work-study are available.
General: The program gives students a firm foundation in linguistics and an intensive teaching practicum. Students begin teaching classes for international graduate students during their first quarter and continue teaching throughout their first year, getting feedback from faculty and learning to design courses and materials. Their practicum work is closely coordinated with the Methods, Materials, and Research in TESOL courses (The Teaching of EFL, Materials of TESOL, and Recent Research and Special Projects in TESOL). They also have opportunities to observe ESL classes on campus and in the community.
The university has an intensive English language program for nonnative speakers through University Extension.
Further Information:
Elaine Brown, Graduate Coordinator, OR
Almerindo Ojeda, Graduate Adviser
Linguistics Department
Sproul 110
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616 USA
Fax: 530-752-3464
E-mail: embrown@ucdavis.edu, aeojeda@ucdavis.edu
http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/
http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/
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