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The Graduate Center City University
of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7407 New York, NY 10016-4309 telephone: 212-817-8500 fax: 212-817-1526 email: linguistics@gc.cuny.edu |
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Ph.D. Program Requirements and Guidelines:
Required Core Courses
Two of the following (Ph.D):
- Syntax II
- Semantics II
- Phonology II
- Morphology
- Linguistic Phonetics
Secondary Requirements:
Select two of the following three categories, and one course from each selected category.Masters Program Requirements and Guidelines:
Required Core Courses (15 credits):
Electives (15 credits):
Masters Program (Computational Linguistics):
To receive an M.A. with aconcentration in Computational Linguistics, a student must:
Required Courses:
- Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics + practicum
- Syntax I + practicum
- Methods in Computational Linguistics I + practicum
- Methods in Computational Linguistics II (pre-requisite: Methods I)
- Language Technology
- Corpus Analysis
- MA Supervised Research (1 credit Independent Study)
One of the following:
- Phonology I + practicum
- Semantics I + practicum
Electives: 2 courses
Doctoral students must satisfy two language requirements. Masters students must fulfill one foreign language requirement. Additional information can be found on the Language Requirements page.
Level I Ph.D. students must pass the First Examination or Qualifying Paper (QP1). This will determine whether a student is qualified to continue toward the Ph.D. The QP1 will consist of original research. Students must begin the First Exam by the time they have completed 36 credits, and they are required to pass it by the time they have completed 45 credits.
All Ph.D. students must take a formal Second Examination or the Second Qualifying Paper(QP2). The purpose of the Second Examination is to ensure that the student has achieved the necessary competence in his or her focus of specialization to carry out dissertation research. The Second Exam is not a dissertation proposal.
All students are required to have successfully completed the Second Examination
no later than the end of their fifth year (tenth semester) to remain
in the program.
A dissertation proposal must be defended in the semester following the passing of the Second Exam. The student must select a Dissertation Committee of at least 3 Graduate Center faculty. One of these will be the Dissertation Supervisor.
The Third Examination is the student's dissertation defense.
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