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Graduate Diploma in Linguistics

Course code: 3768 + Course abbreviation: GradDipLing + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This program offers an opportunity for students who already have a bachelors degree without a linguistics major to complete a major in order to qualify for entry into the honours program in linguistics.

Entry requirements

All applicants are required to hold a bachelors degree.

Course structure

The course consists of 48 points. Students will normally complete eight 6-point units conforming to the requirement of the linguistics major (see below). Students with some background in linguistics may undertake a combination of 6-point and 12-point (fourth-year) units in consultation with the course coordinator.

A linguistics major must normally include the two core introductory units and at least one unit from each of the four groups listed, with a minimum of 18 points being completed at third or fourth-year level:

Core introductory units

LIN1010 The language game: why do we talk the way we do? (6 points)
LIN1020 Describing and analysing language and communication (6 points)

Group 1: Structure

LIN2070/3070 Eastern Austronesian languages of Indonesia, East Timor and Oceania
LIN2090/3090 Syntax: grammatical structure, typology and universals
LIN2370/3370 Aboriginal languages of Australia
LIN2510/3510 Structure of English

Group 2: Sound and meaning

LIN2110/3110 Phonetics and phonology
LIN2310/3310 Semantics: meaning in human languages
LIN2330/3330 Pragmatics: strategies for communication
LIN2570/3570 The analysis of discourse: texts, narrative and society

Group 3: Language and society

LIN2080/3080 Language across time
LIN2190/3190 History and sociolinguistics of English
LIN2350/3350 Sociolinguistics
LIN2390/3390 Language, communication and the sexes
LIN3030/4030 Issues in language endangerment

Group 4: Applications

LIN2430/3430 Psycholinguistics and child language acquisition
LIN2160/3160 Managing intercultural communication
LIN2490/3490 Literacies and communication
LIN2550/3550 Second language acquisition and attrition
LIN3180 Data Management for linguists
LIN3050/4050 Developing language maintenance programs
LIN3040/4040 Researching and documenting languages
LIN3060/4060 Working with linguistic archival materials
LIN2470/3470 Intercultural communications

Honours electives

LIN4740 Linguistic theory (12 points)
LIN4720 Special topics in linguistics (12 points)

Alternative electives may be approved on an individual basis.

Contact details

Course coordinator

Dr Heather Bowe

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