Monthly Archives: September 2016

Tri-Agency / Affiliated Doctoral Competition Information

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Deadline: Monday, October 3 to the Linguistics Department.
UBC Affiliated Fellowships.
  • The UBC Affiliated Fellowships doctoral competition runs in concert with the university-adjudicated NSERC and SSHRC CGS doctoral competitions. Students who submit an NSERC or SSHRC application to their graduate program are eligible for open Affiliated Fellowships and do not need to submit a separate Affiliated Fellowships application.
  • To be considered for criteria-based affiliated fellowship(s), students should submit this checklist with their NSERC or SSHRC application to their graduate program.
  • Updated competition information and application/reference forms for the Affiliated Fellowships are available here.
  • A list of 4YF holders who are required to apply for Tri-Agency scholarships in the Fall 2016 competition is posted here.
SSHRC and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D).
Applicants applying through UBC will either be:
  • currently registered at (or were registered at during the year of application), or are on an approved leave of absence from, a degree program at UBC
  • not currently registered at UBC; or are registered, but not in a degree program; and have completed all of the requirements for a degree program from UBC since 1 January 2016
Both agencies — SSHRC and NSERC — have application forms and instructions online. Please see their websites for further detail.

New Ph.D. Program Requirements

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The Ph.D. (and M.A.) requirements are being modified to reflect a better balance of depth and breadth in your graduate-level training. Here is the new plan, which we will be implementing as we can this year (2016W) and will be fully implementing next year (2017W).

(Remember those new courses that are on the horizon? Be thinking about those, as you process this information.)

Breadth requirement. Complete at least 3 courses from the following list for a total of 9 credits:

  • LING 508 (Phonetics)
  • LING 510 (Phonology)
  • LING 520 (Syntax)
  • LING 525 (Semantics)

Depth requirement. Complete at least 5 courses from the following list, including at least 1 section of LING 530 for a total of 15 credits.

  • LING 5XX (Acquisition)
  • LING 532 (Field Methods in Linguistics II)
  • LING 505A (Morphology)
  • LING 5XX (Phonetics)
  • LING 5XX (Phonology)
  • LING 5XX (Semantics)
  • LING 5XX (Syntax)
  • LING 530 (Seminars on assorted topics)

Methods requirement. You’ll need  a total of 9 credits of methods courses to complete this requirement. You must complete LING 531 (Field Methods) and at least 3 credits of Linguistics methods courses*.  For the remaining credits you could take an additional field methods course (LING 532) or an appropriate course in a different department (statistics, logic, etc.).

Important note! We used to require that a Ph.D. student had to be registered in a LING 530 seminar until they were ABD. Now they just must be registered in any course other than a thesis credit course. Easy peasy.

*These new methods courses do not exist at all yet! For the time being students will have to take Ling 518 to complete this methods bit.

New M.A. Program Requirements

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The M.A. (and Ph.D.) requirements are being modified to reflect a better balance of depth and breadth in your graduate-level training. Here is the new plan, which we will be implementing as we can this year (2016W) and will be fully implementing next year (2017W).

(Remember those new courses that are on the horizon? Be thinking about those, as you process this information.)

Breadth requirement. Complete at least 3 courses from the following list for a total of 9 credits:

  • LING 508 (Phonetics)
  • LING 510 (Phonology)
  • LING 520 (Syntax)
  • LING 525 (Semantics)

Methods requirement. Complete LING 531 (Field Methods) and at least 3 credits of Linguistics methods courses* for a total of 6 credits.

Thesis. This is 6 credits.

Choose your own adventure! An additional 9 credits are to be chosen with approval from the supervisory committee; courses may be from Linguistics or another appropriate department. This is where these new courses will be key.

*These new methods courses do not exist at all yet! For the time being students will have to take Ling 518 to complete this methods bit.

New courses for 2017W

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Lots of changes are afoot!

In 2017W we are adding upper level undergraduate courses to be co-taught with graduate level courses, renumbering some of the graduate courses, and adding some new ones altogether. Starting in 2017W (we hope) there will be:

Undergrad/Grad Courses

  • LING 410 (to be taught along with LING 510); pre-requisite: LING 311
  • LING 425 (to be taught along with LING 525); pre-requisite: LING 327
  • LING 420 (to be taught along with LING 520); pre-requisite: LING 300

New Grad Courses 

  • LING 5XX: Phonetics; pre-requisite, LING 508
  • LING 5XX: Phonology: pre-requisite, LING 510
  • LING 5XX: Semantics: pre-requisite, LING 525
  • LING 5XX: Syntax: pre-requisite, LING 520
  • LING 5XX: Acquisition; either LING 451 or 452

LING530s will no longer be 1 year, but just single term seminars. There will be at least 3 of them offered every academic year. We are also getting rid of Ling 518.

This is all pretty exciting!

Areal requirements for Qualifying Papers

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QPs used to have to be in different areas. The problem was we all had different definitions of different areas! So, the new requirement is now:

Each Ph.D. student is required to submit two Qualifying Papers in areas to be established in consultation with and subject to approval by the supervisory committee. Balancing a student’s research interests with attention to research breadth should be a major goal in choosing topics.

Let’s also have a major goal being everyone finishing their QPs in a timely fashion. #gradstudentgoals #isyoloappropriatehere

Stats Consulting

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In addition to googling your life away, you can get stats help on campus!
“As in past years, free statistical consultation will be available this fall term, from graduate students enrolled in our practicum course STAT 551 (Statistical Consulting).
 
For more information, see the “August 2016 Project Solicitation” at:
 
 
If the type of consultation described might be helpful to your research program, please submit your project carefully following the guidelines in that announcement.”