Georgetown University MLC

Hello sir, will you please tell me the Program Requirements of M.A. in Language & Communication of Georgetown University??

[Pathak]

Georgetown University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the United States

The M.A. in Language and Communication is a professionally-oriented program within the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University.

This program cultivates strong research and analytical abilities in sociolinguistics, specifically discourse analysis (e.g. narrative analysis and cross cultural communication), ethnography, and pragmatics.

The program is designed to link these theories to practice in a range of professional fields.

Requirements

• General Linguistics (sound, form, and meaning).

Students with no significant background in linguistics should register for one of the following courses in their first year.

LING 401: General Linguistics
LING 410: Phonetics
LING 411: Phonology
LING 427: Syntax I
LING 485: Cognitive Grammar
LING 531: Semantics & Pragmatics I

• LING 478: MLC Proseminar.

This is a professionalization course designed to illustrate how to use linguistics in professional contexts. Offered in the Spring semester.
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• 3 additional “core” courses, which cultivate methodological, theoretical, and core analytical competencies (in sociolinguistics including variation analysis or discourse analysis) to be selected from the following:

LING 481: Sociolinguistic Variation
LING 483: Discourse Analysis: Narrative
LING 484: Discourse Analysis: Conversation
LING 495: Ethnography of Communication
LING 496: Intercultural Communication
LING 570: Introduction to Sociolinguistics
LING 571: Sociolinguistic Field Methods

Electives:
3- 5 courses (depending on Master’s Thesis option), to be selected from the above list (with permission from advisor) or from other courses in the Linguistics Department, including but not limited to:

LING 352: Foundations of Education
LING 355: Language in the USA
LING 367: Computational Corpus Linguistics
LING 380: Language and Politics
LING 385: Language and Multimedia Discourse
LING 387: Language, Culture, and Thought
LING 402: Forensic Linguistics
LING 403: Language and the Law
LING 405: Language and Social Media
LING 445: Language Contact
LING 447: American Dialects
LING 454: Linguistics and Reading
LING 584: Statistics for Linguistics Research
LING 583: Intertextuality
LING 586: Language and Identity
LING 589 Institutional Discourse

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