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Course Overview

This course is required to be taken twice, typically beginning in the fall semester of students’ first year in the Ph.D. program and continuing into the following spring semester. Students will design and conduct a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Course requirements include a final paper by the end of the second semester with the following components, as applicable: development of an appropriate research plan, completion of the IRB human subjects review, and collection and analysis of data. LIN 880 may be repeated a third semester at the discretion of the instructor if requirements cannot be successfully completed in the usual two semesters.

Acceptance to LIN Ph.D. program and successful completion of the LIN Qualifying Exam.

Program: Linguistics

Credit: 3

Other Courses

LIN-595U

Special Topics

Grading System: letter grades only.

Linguistics

Credits 1-3

LIN-585U

Prosody in Sign…

This course introduces students to the theories and…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-575U

Languages of the…

This course is an introduction to language typology,…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-573U

Corpus Linguistics

A corpus is a large collection of machine-readable…

Linguistics

LIN-572U

Language Documentation

This seminar will explore language documentation with an…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-571U

Field Methods

This course will provide students with experience in…

Linguistics

Credits 4