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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Graduate Certificate in Linguistics

Course code: 3767 + Off-campus (Clayton) + Mid-year entry available + 1 semester full-time, 1 year part-time
Course coordinator: Heather Bowe

Course description

This program offers students without a degree but with extensive professional experience in relevant areas an exposure to the key ideas of linguistics so as to prepare them for continuing studies. The program aims to meet, in part, the needs of people wishing to apply linguistics in various professional fields; it focuses upon the central aspects of the discipline and aims to develop students' basic knowledge and skills in these areas.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have either a pass bachelors degree or, more usually, extensive experience in language-related teaching, translating/interpreting, journalism and so on. Alternatively, applicants should have completed, with credit, two of the program's fourth-year Open Learning Australia units (in which case, the certificate may be awarded without further requirements).

Course structure

Students complete two of the following fourth-year units (12 points per unit; 24 points in total):

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