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adding the emphasis
Graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. in the Departments of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Education, French & Italian, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish & Portuguese may petition to add the emphasis in applied linguistics at any time (using the Graduate Student Petition from the Graduate Division). The petition should be signed by the departmental graduate advisor and then sent to the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (c/o Dorothy Chun, Department of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies) for approval. Once the Executive Committee gives an approval, the petition will be forwarded to the Graduate Division. Students will then ask a member of the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee or Affiliated Faculty to be their advisor. There are 9 faculty on the Executive Committee and 25 Affiliated Faculty members from 12 departments on campus.
program requirements
course requirements
Students must take a total of five courses (20 units).
A. A minimum of two courses (8 units) must be taken from the core group of applied linguistics courses, which provide them with the basics of linguistics, second language acquisition theories, second/foreign language teaching methodologies, and practical applications of theory to teaching:
| • Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research [GER 262B] |
| • Second Language Teaching Methodology [GER 262A] |
| • Second Language Learning in Educational Contexts [ED 270F] |
| • Bilingual Language Development [ED 202A] |
| • Foreign/Second Language Teaching [FRE 500 + paper, GER 500 + paper; SPA 590; CHI 251; CHI 501 + paper; JAP 501 + paper; LIN 504 + paper or LING 239] |
| • Topics in Applied Linguistics |
B. Two additional courses (8 units) are required and may be chosen from the wide array of offerings at UCSB (see Master Course List www.appliedlinguistics.ucsb.edu/courses). Students may, but are not required to, select a sub-specialty from one of the five sub-areas below:
| • Linguistics, Discourse, Second Language Acquisition |
| • Language and Society, Socio-cultural Perspectives, Multilingualism and Multiliteracy |
| • Language, Literacy and Composition Studies |
| • Language and Cognition, Psycholinguistics |
| • Language Acquisition Enhanced by Technology |
C. Required independent study (4 units): Taken with an appropriate faculty member, leading to a research paper describing theoretical, empirical, or applied work in applied linguistics.
examination requirement: In addition to the course and unit requirements described above (including the research paper), the student's Ph.D. Qualifying Examination shall include examination of knowledge within the Applied Linguistics emphasis. At least one faculty member of the Applied Linguistics program shall participate in the qualifying examination.
degree conferral process: The emphasis in Applied Linguistics will be awarded solely in conjunction with the Ph.D. and will be signified by the degree designation "Ph.D. in X with Emphasis in Applied Linguistics" where X is the Ph.D. program in which the student is enrolled.