Linguistics Graduate Certificate

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Graduate Certificate Type

Add-On
Stand-Alone

Admissions Standards/Procedures

• Prospective candidates for the certificate may take up to 6 graduate credit hours of certificate classes before making application for admission to the certificate program.
• Application should be made online to the Office of Graduate Admissions. If already enrolled in a graduate program at UTK and you wish to add the Linguistics Graduate Certificate to your course of study, choose “Change of Program” via the Graduate Admissions website and add the Linguistics certificate.

Academic Standards

• Once admitted to the program, students must maintain a graduate GPA of at least 3.00.

Credit Hours Required

18 graduate credit hours

Required Courses

Students will satisfy the requirements of the certificate program by selecting 18 graduate credit hours from the following courses, provided those courses are selected in consultation with a program advisor, who approves their selection. A certificate cannot be earned without program approval by the advisor. Select 18 graduate credit hours from the following:

• LING 423 - History of Linguistics
• LING 425 - Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
• MFLL 400 - Psycholinguistics
• MFLL 512 - Teaching a Foreign Language
• SPAN 410 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• SPAN 432 - Multilingualism
• ASL 435 - Linguistics of American Sign Language
• EDDE 415 - Language Development of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing I
• EDDE 416 - Language Development of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing II
• ENGL 508 - History of the English Language I
• ENGL 509 - History of the English Language II
• ENGL 575 - Issues in Second/Foreign Language Rhetoric and Composition
• ENGL 680 - Advanced Studies in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
• FREN 421 - Phonetics
• GERM 510 - German Phonetics and Advanced Grammar
• GERM 541 - Medieval German Language and Literature
• GERM 631 - Seminar in German and Germanic Philology
• GERM 632 - Seminar in German and Germanic Philology
• LING 400 - Topics in Linguistics
• LING 426 - Topics in Linguistics Research Methods
• LING 435 - Structure of the German Language
• LING 471 - Sociolinguistics
• LING 472 - American English
• LING 474 - Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
• LING 476 - Second Language Acquisition
• LING 477 - Pedagogical Grammar for ESL Teachers
• LING 485 - Special Topics in Language
• LING 540 - Translation, Linguistics, and Context
• PSYC 400 - Advanced Cognitive Psychology
• SPAN 430 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics
• SPAN 461 - Special Topics
• SPAN 531 - From Latin to Spanish
• STAT 531 - Survey of Statistical Methods I
• WLEL 466 - ESL Assessment and Evaluation
• WLEL 489 - Content-Based ESL Methods

• Other courses may, where appropriate, be substituted for the courses listed above with the permission of the Chair of the Linguistics Program.

• LING 520 - Capstone Project

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  Note: All courses must be selected in consultation with a program advisor, who must approve all courses for individual students prior to their being taken, except that, as noted above, up to 6 graduate credit hours may be accepted from candidates upon admission.

Non-Course Requirements

To receive the certificate, students must:
1) complete the Graduate Certificate Course Verification Form (located on the Graduate School webpage under the Forms Central tab) and
2) through MyUTK, apply to graduate from the certificate program.