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  2. Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced)
  3. Specialisation (Formal)
  4. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
  5. Structure

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics // Structure

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Structure

100 credit points

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

The Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) in this area of specialisation requires:

  • one compulsory subject (12.5 points)
  • thesis subject (50 points)
  • elective subjects (37.5 points)

 

Total 100 points

 

Please note:

  • Students must enrol in the thesis LING40015 LAL Thesis Part 1 and LING40016 LAL Thesis Part 2 over two consecutive semesters

Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) students may also take any one of the following subjects for 25 points by concurrently enrolling in LING40001 Directed Reading Project for the remaining 12.5 points:

  • LING40003 Discourse Analysis & Representation
  • LING40004 Seminars in Theoretical Linguistics
  • LING40008 Experimental Phonetics
  • LING40009 Seminars in Descriptive Linguistic

 

Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) students may only enrol in one of the following subjects for the Honours degree (these subjects are not available in online mode for Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) students:

  • LING90005 Quantitative Methods in Language Studies
  • LING90012 Second Language Acquisition
  • LING90019 English in a Globalised World
  • LING90021 Bilingualism

Students must obtain written permission from the subject coordinator to enrol in LING40001 Directed Reading Project.

 

Subject Options

Compulsory Subject

12.5 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING40002 Issues in Linguistic Research
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Thesis Subject

50 points

 

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING40015 LAL Thesis Part 1
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
LING40016 LAL Thesis Part 2
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25

Elective Subjects

37.5 points

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING40001 Directed Reading Project
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
LING40004 Seminars in Theoretical Linguistics Not available in 2024 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING40006 Linguistic Field Methods Not available in 2024 25
LING40008 Experimental Phonetics Not available in 2024 12.5
LING40009 Seminars in Descriptive Linguistics
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
LING40013 Methods in Sociolinguistic Research
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
LING90005 Quantitative Methods in Language Studies
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Online)
 12.5
LING90012 Second Language Acquisition
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll

Last updated: 8 November 2024